Today's Collaborative Click: Toolbox for the Systems Change Mindset

We love a framework. Most of the work that all of us are doing in community, economic, and workforce impact is messy, so frameworks are great because they help bring structure and clarity. Here's one from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.

The Toolbox for the Systems Change Mindset is aimed at helping workforce practitioners and their regional partners better define the challenges they are working to resolve, and to apply systems thinking to work through possible solutions. 

Systems change can seem like a sea of choices and connections. You may be uncertain which decision to make and how to affect change. The toolbox simplifies systems change by framing it within broad principles. Use these insights to understand how systems work and how you can influence the systems you’re working within. The five principles of systems change are informed by theories of system thinking and the on-the-ground work of the National Fund’s regional collaboratives. Keep the principles in mind as you use the toolbox. (Read more.)