Enablers of Change

Creating enduring change using peer-to-peer learning

Today we’re going to explore one of the most effective ways of creating enduring change in farming communities: peer-to-peer learning!
This is a way of working as enablers of change that can really build capacity and capability.

How to build a sticky wall

In this episode we will introduce you to a tool that is seriously cool and very useful if you’re working as an enabler of change - the sticky wall!

Which is more important: content or process?

Today we’re going to explore the age old question of content versus process when you’re facilitating an event or a group of people. We’ve often heard debate around this as an enabler of change working in extension! Some people are adamant that you have to know the content, and others are equally adamant that it’s the process that helps enable change. 

Top five books for enablers of change

In this episode we’ll give you a brief overview of the top five books that we think are useful to have on our bookshelf as enablers of change! See the show notes for all the resources.

Bennett’s hierarchy: a simple yet powerful evaluation framework

Evaluation shouldn’t be just the add-on at the end of a project - it’s a core skill for enablers of change like ourselves! So let’s explore one framework for evaluation that’s been around for sometime - Bennett’s Hierarchy.
In this episode we’re going to explore what Bennett’s Hierarchy is and give you a few pointers for using it.

Top 10 tips for better time management

In this episode we’re talking all about time management and we’re going to share the top ten practical tips that actually work for us. There’s lots of other lists of time management practices, but many of those haven’t worked for us... perhaps they’re a bit too rigid or in some cases simplistic. So we’re going to share with you what works for us.

Mythbuster… do people really retain only 20% of what they hear?

In this short episode we’re doing our second mythbusters session! Let’s not just accept something because it’s been said so many times that most people believe it. We’re going to delve deeper and explore the facts. So, let’s explore the cone of learning and the suggestion that people only retain 20% of what they hear, compared with 90% of what they do!

Structured conversations using ORID

Today we’re going to explore a quick and simple way to have a structured conversation about something, or anything really! This is a very useful tool if you work in change and innovation, so if you aren’t sure what an ORID is, or if you do and want to know more, then this is for you!

Cheap but effective name tags

It’s almost embarrassing to do this episode! Such a simple thing... but we’ve seen this done so badly over the years, we thought it was worth putting a short post together. What are we talking about? Name tags of course!

Enabling greater practice change using co-innovation

What if we could dramatically improve the adoption of innovations produced in our projects by one small design tweak? And especially those notoriously difficult and complex projects where there are no simple answers and multiple stakeholders involved.