Resources
Strategic Frameworks
Foundational frameworks designed to empower your research org to systemically prioritise, build, and sustain the key relationships that are essential for driving research impact, achieving your strategic goals, and securing sustainable funding.
Relationships for Impact
People and relationships are at the heart of impact.
But what types of relationships should we focus on building? And who should we build them with?
Adaptive Relationship-Building
Building key relationships isn't a one-off activity. How can our research orgs embed the practice of systematically and proactively cultivating the relationships that matter most, even as the context and our priorities evolve? (Resources currently in development.)
Applied Relationship-Building Strategies
Actionable strategies designed to help your organisation scale influence and amplify research impact through strategic relationship-building.
Constellation Influence
Constellation Influence is a strategy for amplifying your team’s reach by empowering your “star” researchers to grow their influence in ways that also align with your organisational goals. Read the working paper.
Tools, Templates, & Guides
Practical resources designed for immediate use in strategising and undertaking your research org’s comms, engagement, and other relationship-building activities.
How to create Relationship Mosaic Profiles
While traditional stakeholder or audience profiles can seem insightful, they often oversimplify reality — and it can be hard to know what to actually do with them. Relationship Mosaic Profiles offer a nuanced, data-driven approach that scales from individual contacts to large diverse groups, providing actionable insights into how they think and feel, why each relationship matters, and how to engage with them.
How to create your Thought Leadership Matrix
Your Thought Leadership Matrix is a simple but powerful tool that’s designed to empower your team’s ability to create targeted, audience-specific comms efficiently and effectively. It supports both centralised and distributed comms by clearly mapping who you need to reach, what they genuinely care about, the best channels and formats to reach them, and who in your team is best placed to spearhead the comms.
How to develop Outcomes-First Content
Outcomes-First Content is a methodology for academic teams tired of creating content that goes nowhere. It’s all about making better decisions, earlier, so you don’t waste time, budget, or energy later. It provides a step-by-step process for creating content that's strategically aligned with your goals — whether that's influencing policy, securing funding, or changing hearts and minds.
How to craft unforgettable academic talks
Would you like to leave audiences buzzing after your talks? This practical guide distils advice from a number of expert communicators — covering how to choose compelling topics, structure stories effectively, build authentic connections, confidently manage nerves, and leave lasting impressions on your audience. (Resources currently in development.)
