Tools for co-ways of working

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Often our work and collaborations produce tools and resources we can share.

We’ve shared some links below, in case they can help you too.

Big thanks to the collaborators, clients, colleagues and friends who helped us make them, and to the funders, commissioners and sponsors who walk their talk and keep striving to do this work well. We’re always better together.

Take the co-word fast check

A digital decision making tool to help you sense check the level of participation that is actually possible before promising a co-word project or activity.

You can find the tool here

Made by Better Together Collective and morgan&co, based on contemporary public participation scales and spectrums.

You can find All of Us: a guide to engaging consumers, carers and communities across NSW Health here

The story of how it was made is here

It includes the following NSW Health respectful engagement tools:

Plan questions [download PDF]

Essentials checklist [download PDF]

Explore access and inclusion [download PDF]

Engagement and design method cards [download PDF] by NSW Health & Beyond Sticky Notes

Made by many for many including NSW health consumers, carers and staff, a Design Crew, Advisory group, NSW Health Experience Team, KA McKercher and Sue Muller. Illustrations by Lucy Klippan.

Doing research together is a resource and collection of tools that helps researchers, consumers, carers, and health workers co-design and co-deliver medical research. We think it’s also useful in lots of other co-ways of working contexts.

You can find the resource here

Read how it was made here

Find the tools for working together here, including:

Better meetings
Tips and editable templates to improve meetings (learn more)

Words to actions
Practical suggestions to put the key principles into action. (download PDF)

Check in and evaluate
Questions and actions to check in throughout the process and evaluate the process (download PDF)

Talk about roles (editable)
An example of identifying and discussing roles for people with lived experience (download PowerPoint)

Check in
Questions and actions to check how it’s going and what could change (download PDF)

Evaluate how it went
Questions and actions to evaluate the process from the perspective of the people involved (download PDF)

Created with care by NSW Regional Health Partners, KA McKercher and Sue Muller. Illustrations by Lucy Klippan.

Tools for Better Co-Parts is a growing collection of useful tools for better co and participatory ways of working.

You can find it here

Proudly developed and maintained by Better Together Collective, collaborative partners, friends and supporters.

Need some extra support with your co-ways of working?  – seven ways we can help

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We’ll meet you where you’re at and turn ideas into action. Explore our services to see how we can create meaningful impact together.