ALIGNMENT TOOLS
Aligning Language & Stories
A Field Guide to Leadership Stories
To hone our own and others’ awareness, we have drafted this brief “field guide” to leadership-related stories.
Strengths-based Language
A guide to writing and editing for inclusive, strengths-based language including a worksheet for practice.
Policies & Practices
Lens to Examine Policies and Practices
This tool is a shared baseline lens for evaluating policies and practices. It is intended to help examine your team or organization’s policies, decisions, etc.—whether current or under consideration—to ensure they center equity and are in alignment with what your organization says it believes in.
Culture & Behaviors
Readiness Tool
A resource to better predict and plan for the natural and unavoidable tensions that arise in any type of transformational change work by setting accountability measures at the outset and lining up supports to work through them.
Other Tools and Resources
Head Heart Hands
A general tool for you to use to assess the impact of a presentation, engagement, discussion, etc.
Coming soon:
A guide to assess the readiness of your organization to take on equity-centered work to be in greater alignment with the leadership narrative.
A tool to translate the leadership narrative into leadership behaviors both within yourself and your organization.
Change Leadership Programs convenings: Midwest/ Southwest Regional Leadership Institute
Here’s the deck from the Beyond the Hero session in Kansas City. Thank you for the great conversation and for adding to the repertoire of FAQs, ideas, and resources.
ComNet Slide Deck
Here’s the deck from ComNet, which more deeply explores how narrative combines words and stories, policies and practices, behaviors and culture. It also introduces the broadened leadership narrative–see more below.
Change Leadership Programs: West Regional Leadership Institute
Here’s the deck from Change Leadership Programs, which provides diagrams and context on narrative.
Change Leadership Programs: Boston and Kansas City 2023
Here’s the deck from the Beyond the Hero session from Boston and Kansas City. Thank you for the great conversation and for adding new thoughts and ideas, which we tried to capture all in the FAQs.
ComNet Slide Deck
Here’s the deck from a recent presentation at ComNet, a national conference for communication professionals in philanthropy, which explores more deeply how narrative combines words and stories, policies and practices, and behaviors and culture.
Head Heart Hands
Here is a tool to reflect on what you learned, felt, and will take away from this work. Feel free to use it in any engagements you are leading!