When it’s time to wind down or pivot
Had a great run with your community of practice / network? Is the momentum diminishing? Could it be time to pivot or wind down? Introduction: Over the past decade [...]
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Sep 2024
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Feb 2024
Transitioning the Testing Change project
As many of you who have been readers of this blog know, I have written a number of times over the past years about the Civil Society and Testing [...]
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Apr 2023
Multi-stakeholder initiatives
Introduction One of the most rewarding parts of my work over the years has been helping to create and nurture multi-stakeholder efforts. Multi-stakeholder initiatives are voluntary partnerships between groups [...]
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Nov 2022
Learning as we go
Through this blog I periodically share learning from projects I have recently been involved with. These can be reminders of things we know but in the day to day press [...]
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Jun 2022
Youth inclusion – what we’ve learned
The Testing Change project is a global collaboration of organizations who set out to identify and test some new operational approaches that could help organizations stay relevant. We have thus [...]
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Jan 2022
Practice Makes Perfect
Many fluent English speakers may have heard this expression “Practice Makes Perfect" at some point. Most of our organizations and projects are of course not really going for ‘perfect’ but [...]
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Dec 2021
Reflecting on the Year
I haven’t done an end of the year blog post in a number of years now, but there is something about this year that feels like it merits marking its [...]
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Sep 2021
Testing New Leadership Approaches
Readers of this blog will know that for the past few years I have written about a project I founded and manage called the Testing Change project. The Testing Change [...]
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Dec 2020
Rebuilding civil society
Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change [...]
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Apr 2020
The Next Phase
We’ve survived the first weeks… Phase 1, the high intensity, quick decision-making time is ending. Phase 2 is harder, it’s the endurance phase. It’s like moving from acute to chronic, [...]