Change Implementation

Everything You Wanted to Know About Logic Models but Were Afraid to Ask

This paper provides a basic overview of logic models – what they are, their benefits and suggestions for level of detail and format. It addresses situations where a private foundation designs an initiative and awards grants to a number of sites to participate in the initiative in their local setting.

Learning from Practice: Evaluation and Improvement Science Syllabus

This guide focuses on the development and use of the program logic model, and provides an orientation to the underlying principles and language of the program logic model so it can be effectively used in program planning, implementation, and dissemination of results.

Leading in Permanent Whitewater (7 minute microlearning)

Change is constant in our environment and in child welfare, in particular. Just under 8 minutes, this Quickbit describes the characteristics of permanent whitewater and offers strategies for navigating these rough waters; how people can keep the vision alive and stand in the gap of the creative tension between the vision and reality.

7 Behaviors of Adaptive Leadership (5 minute microlearning)

This microlearning (5 minutes) explains the difference between technical and adaptive challenges, and describes the seven major behaviors identified by Heifetz and his co-authors that can help individuals address challenges and manage change successfully.

Adaptive Leadership

This course explains the difference between adaptive challenges and technical work and provides opportunities to practice applying these concepts. It also covers the practical application of Adaptive Leadership including the major behaviors that will help address and manage change successfully. Completing this course will develop an individual’s leadership skills in all domains of NCWWI’s Leadership Model, …

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Regulating Distress (3 minute microlearning)

his microlearning focuses on one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership – regulating distress. Completing this course will develop your leadership skills in the Leading People and Leading for Results domains of NCWWI’s Leadership Model. It also provides strategies that can be used to support community context, organizational environment and incentives/work conditions components of the Workforce Development …

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Get on the Balcony (3 minute microlearning)

This three minute microlearning course provides strategies for “getting on the balcony” which is one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership and includes assessing the overall environment by stepping back to view the patterns, relationships, and context.

Your Guide to Holding Steady (3.5 minute microlearning)

This microlearning (3 1/2 minutes) explains ways to hold steady, one of the seven behaviors of adaptive leadership, during times of change. Completing this course will help participants develop leadership skills in the Leading People and Leading Change domains of NCWWI’s Leadership Model (http://bit.ly/1S2Drlp). It also provides strategies that can be used to support community …

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