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Identify Drivers and Resisters

Introduction
Introduction Identify a wicked problem or engage the community Define your community Identify Drivers and Resisters Identify Community Stewards Identify a Backbone Organisation Identify and recruit your Action Team Choose a Collaborative Leader (within the Action Team) Undertake a new member skills survey Build community momentum Keep the momentum for change The action team will change too Gather information
Introduction Vision setting Values Setting Goals (starting with the end in mind) Choosing projects Turning plans into action Project management Finding funds and resources Advocacy
Introduction Measuring if (and where) change has occurred or not Celebrating success & identifying the lessons learned Systemising new processes and best practices Publicising the successes and lessons learned Measuring how well the Action Team has performed Skilling up new Action Team members and leaders

Be A Partner

““Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.””

—Margaret Mead

Community Led Impact Partnerships are about helping communities (which can include government, organisations, business, not-for-profits and local citizens) to take charge of making their community or region better.

A useful concept to identify who will be a supporter of change, and who might be a resister to change, is the Force Field Analysis. Social scientist Kurt Lewin invented the Force Field Analysis to help plot the dynamic nature of any change process. He suggested that a status quo (the existing state of affairs especially regarding social or political issues) is reached when the sum of the forces driving change and the forces resisting change are equal.

Lewin observed that change could come about by unfreezing the current situation, making the change and then refreezing the new situation. In other words, if your community wants to create a change, you must:

  • Strengthen the positive driver forces.
  • Weaken the negative resister forces.
  • Create new positive driver forces.

You must give negativity a positivity sandwich!

Actions

Use the Force Field Analysis Tool to identify what people, organisations (private and public), trends or attitudes could be important Drivers or Resisters of your project. Use your analysis to help when you target your Action Team members.

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