Free tools and resources to help you embed innovation culture and build healthy collaboration.
Developed in collaboration with leaders, teams, partners and experts.
We share these tools freely to reflect the values of our namesake, Lawrence Hargrave, and our commitment to helping Australia become more innovative.
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* A Quest for Innovation
If you lead a team – no matter how large or small – this step by step guide will help you determine your team’s innovation strategy – where you’re at, where you’re going and how to get there.
* How do you recharge your team during times of uncertainty? (TeamPlay)
This TeamPlay includes questions from the Resilience @ Work toolkit, handpicked to help individuals and teams boost energy and resilience.
* There’s More To Work Than Working
Recently, we’ve seen lots of research about the productivity gains and benefits of working from home, but perhaps it’s time to ask: Is there a cost? While we might be more productive now, are we sacrificing the very elements that make us better, smarter and happier workers and colleagues?
* Thriving Teams for Collaboration & Growth
In our experience, collaboration thrives on 2 key attributes ― ’confidence’ and ‘connectedness’. This ebook shares 20 years’ experience and tools to help teams and individuals develop healthy collaboration.
123 Innovate Guide
A guide to understanding ‘See Think Do’ and the process and method underpinning 123 Innovate.
123 Innovate Individual Cards
48 question cards to help individuals – you – identify and address opportunities and challenges.
123 Innovate Team Cards
48 question cards to help teams identify and address opportunities and challenges.
20 Myths of Innovation
Sometimes in innovation, what you expect to happen, doesn’t. We call it a ‘myth of innovation’. Download our top 20 Myths of Innovation.
Ask, Don’t Tell
Take some time to bring out the best in others through better question skills. Download the ‘Ask Don’t Tell’ Tool for questions and prompts to help you get started.
Changing the Innovation Climate in Your Organisation
A guide for leaders who understand that people — employees — are an organisation’s most valuable resource for developing a positive climate for innovation.
Collaboration Canvas & Guide
A guide and resources pack to help business, government and social sector organisations develop collaborative projects
Collaboration Diagnostic
Answer 6 simple questions to determine how you really feel about collaboration.
Connect. Create. Celebrate. A step-by-step guide to physical workplace collaboration
As the working landscape continues to evolve, organisations have had to think on their feet and change how they do things. But how do you find the right balance between online and offline collaboration?
Continuous Improvement Cycle
Learn how to set up and maintain a continuous improvement cycle and build and sustain successful digital teamworking habits using Digital Team Builder.
Designing Collaboration for Senior Leaders Playbook
Simple steps to generate great collaboration behaviours and help you maximise the use of the digital collaboration tools that are right at your fingertips.
Digital Collaboration Diagnostic
Use this digital collaboration diagnostic to assess your team’s collaborative behaviours on a scale from 1-7, identifying which behaviours need attention more than others.
Digital Team Builder Intro Pack
Don’t start with a blank page. Start building your digital team-working capability using the free Digital Team Builder Intro pack including strategy and tactics game-play cards.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Deep Dive Question Canvas
Diversity, inclusion and belonging are critical for a healthy society, economy and workplace. This deep-dive canvas includes detailed questions to identify ways you can nurture diversity, inclusion and belonging, in-person and online.
Good Is The Enemy Of Great
Good performance doesn’t cut it anymore. People and teams have to be more resilient, more adaptive and more collaborative to maximise learning and change. People and teams have to be great.
Governing Innovation for Performance
Today, in a world of increasing competition and accelerating rates of change, leaders are faced with the dilemma of how to balance both ‘doing things right’ and ‘doing the right things’. It is time to ‘work different’.
Innovation Conversation
Based on our 123 Innovate See Think Do model, the Innovation Conversation has been designed to engage staff and colleagues when thinking through an idea. As you create a conversation and ask questions, your thinking will develop and the idea will evolve.
Innovation Principles Diagnostic
Use this innovation diagnostic to assess your priorities and performance across 4 core areas – people, process, ideas and collaboration.
Leadership Conversation Quickstart
A 1-page DIY tool including simple ideas to help you kick-start a conversation with your team, a colleague, a leader – anyone – about what good leadership means to you.
Leadership Matters
Successful leadership demands innovation, superior skills and the ability to motivate and inspire others. This leadership ‘How to’ guide includes trigger questions to help leaders and teams gain consensus on how they work and behave.
Pause & Reflect
Pause and reflect, take some time to think about what you’ve learnt and how you might apply it in your life and work.
Remote Teams & Teamworking playbook
Download the Remote Teams Playbook with actionable steps to ensure the best use of your digital workplace collaboration tools.
Resilience for Thriving Teams Kit
Download the free DIY Resilience for Thriving Teams toolkit to discover the actions you can take to build resilience and thriving teams.
Sharing the Secrets of Successful Transformation
Break down the silos to collaborate and transform and explore our process to build healthy collaboration at work, both face-to-face and online.
The Innovators Handbook 2022
As the working landscape continues to evolve, organisations have had to think on their feet and change how they do things. But how do you find the right balance between online and offline collaboration?
The Modern Workplace Canvas for Thriving Teams
Whether you use Microsoft 365, Teams, Yammer, Slack or Workplace from Facebook, you already have the tools for better digital collaboration. Now you need to develop a ‘people first’ approach.
Time To Love Your Work
Running a hybrid team isn’t easy. Start solving digital team challenges now and explore ways to build a hybrid working model that gives flexibility around where AND when you work, with our free TeamPlay, Time To Love Your Work.