6 models that focus on systems and culture, and how they fit together.

Think of them as complementary tools in a change leader’s toolkit

Leading and Managing Change - 6 models to consider when implementing change; 8 common errors; and a 9 step summary for managing a successful change project. Tools for when you have a particular change goal in mind.

A Strategic Action Leadership Team or SALT is a methodology for a team to wrestle with and work through an action plan in response to a challenge or question for which there is currently no immediate solution or right answer to.

A SALT is essentially an Action Learning Team. This resource outlines the methodology and gives some examples of its use.

Some form of common understanding of the whole and systems thinking seems to prevail. So, the core is preserved whilst some of the organisational structure, internal workflows and individual work routines are changed for the good of the whole.

The Integrated Community concept evolved out of the challenges summarised in our previous resource: New Thinking Required which looks at the 60 year decline in Australians’ interest in what most churches are offering.

This resource gives examples of Integrated (or Kingdom) Communities developed over a decade from 2010-2019. Key principles are summarised together with a video created in 2013 to explain the concept.

New Thinking Required for Church Involvement - Adaptive versus Technical Change and Triple Loop Learning

The inexorable decline in Australians’ affiliation with Christianity (down to 5% church attendance on Sunday in 2024) is clear evidence of the continuing urgency for new thinking… which requires the asking of fresh questions.

Reflections on Action Learning - what it is, and and how it can be used - by Dean Phelan following an international gathering with Prof Reg Revans in 1995, and updated in 2018. Dean attended with his great friend and mentor Dr John Enderby (centre, with Reg Revans on right).

In 1995 Dean was privileged to be invited to a gathering in London of 40 practitioners who had published Organisational interventions using Action Learning. The international gathering was convened by the “Father” of Action Learning Prof Reg Revans and sponsored by Lord Butterfield.

Landmark studies change our understanding of a topic and form the canon of works important to that topic. We believe there are at least five landmark studies over the past 25 years that are pivotal to an understanding and effective practise of Leadership.

Work-related stress occurs when the demands of work exceed the resources we have for managing those demands. Research has demonstrated that a number of psychological strategies can be effective at managing occupational stress.

Action Learning Groups used within Westpac Bank to help build customer service, leadership and organisational learning in 1994 by Enderby & Phelan - Paper published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. .