Network Leadership Resources
Our Resource Library contains dozens of articles, infographics, and webinars related to building, managing, and evaluating cross-sector community networks. Start by searching for a topic of interest or read our Intro Guide below.
Network Leadership is the practice of building, managing, and evaluating cross-sector community partnership with a network approach. While traditional leadership emphasizes hierarchal styles of leadership, network leaders must manage a dynamic environment without formal roles, hierarchies, or authority. There are a lot of common examples
Cross-Sector Community Networks
Cross-sector community networks are coalitions of various community groups from the public, private and non-profit sectors – they’re developing all over the nation, and world, and they’re changing the world too! This “network way of working” has grown in part due to cuts in public
How to Measure Trust in a Network
Asking your partners how much they trust one another is unlikely to paint an accurate picture. At Visible Network Labs, we use a three-measure indicator to measure trust in community networks without bias. PARTNER CPRM users can include these metrics in their network management projects
Bounding Your Network Brief
A Network Science Brief from Visible Network Labs Many of our users report that deciding who to include in their network survey is the most difficult step in the entire process. The list you send your survey to dictates the partner options respondents will have.
The Strength of Weak Ties in Networks
The strength of weak ties is one of the oldest and most influential theories in the field of network science. This infographic explains the key points of this interesting concept. Created by Mark Granovetter in 1973, he suggested that, contrary to popular belief, we receive
Weaving a Sector: Building Relationships to Transform a System
In his article A Nation of Weavers, published in the New York Times on February 18, 2019, David Brooks articulates a precious opportunity: “If you can change the culture, you can change behavior on a large scale.” Brooks is referring to a broken culture creating
What is Community-Led Innovation?
Writing from a desk at a company that identifies as a Social Enterprise & Technology Start-Up, it might sound counterintuitive to say that we at Visible Network Labs do not believe that all “innovation” is synonymous with “technology.” Yes, we have amazing tech tools for
Network Leader Insights from the Real World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgXiCNkNSV4In this webinar, we look at the experience of Data Across Sectors for Health, a data-sharing network in the public health field, sharing network leader insights they’ve learned along the way! Peter Eckart directs the Center for Health and Information Technology at the Illinois Public Health
Building Cultures that Help us Collaborate
You wake up in the morning and turn off your alarm. You get dressed in your jeans and button up shirt. You balance your cup of coffee in your hand as you lock your door. You ride the subway, looking at the ground, listening to
Collective Impact is Hard, But We’re Not In the Dark: Advice for Policy Change
Collective impact is hard. If you’ve ever done it, you know it beyond a doubt. If you’ve never done it, just read about the five conditions of collective impact and you’ll be able to guess how hard it would be to make it all work.
Network Governance Webinar: Governance as an Empowerment Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6myhV-r1tc As collaboration across organizational boundaries is becoming more and more common, the need to explore how to “govern” or manage/facilitate/lead networks of partners, continues to grow. The rise of the Collective Impact model guided many networks in strategies for utilizing a backbone organization as
The Value Non-Profits Bring to Cross-Sector Collaborations
While collaboration across organizations has always existed in one form or another, the need for organizations to engage with others for the pursuit of broad-reaching outcomes in the face of limited resources has increased substantially over the last thirty years. In particular, the non-profit sector
How Limited Bandwidth Can be Liberating
On a cold, snowy January morning, I laid on the couch with my foot elevated, two weeks post-op from surgery to repair torn cartilage and ligaments in my right foot. In an attempt to regain some semblance of normalcy, I checked my email for the
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