Through our work with clients and ongoing research into thriving organisations, we have developed a range of tools and models.
These tools support our work, and we have made them available to download and use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence.
Communities of Practice tools and models

Community of practice maturity model
Identify the maturity stage for your community of practice against the Tacit model.

Community of practice canvas
Get your community started using the canvas to guide you through the right questions.

Community of practice review tool
Assess how effective your community of practice is with this five-question survey.

Communities of Practice Organisational Maturity Model
Assess whether your organisation has the right conditions in place for communities of practice to thrive.

Effective Organisational Models and Tools

The Team Onion
Miro and mural boards to support using the Team Onion model, to help keep teams small, break down silos and create shared responsibility across team boundaries.

Team Taxonomies for digital, data and tech organisations
A taxonomy of teams for DDaT organisations that helps them to have better conversations and better interactions.

Capability Profile Mapping
A powerful approach for organisations, individuals, and teams to create a shared understanding of their current capabilities, gaps, and direction against organisational needs.

Leadership approaches and models

5 Questions to measure outcomes
A workshop that promotes outcomes over outputs and helps a team focus on the change they want to see, align on what success looks like and identify ways to measure it — starting with 5 questions.

4Ds roles and responsibility workshop
Articulating roles and responsibilities, especially in the 4Ds format, can clarify decision-making, help set expectations within and outside of the team, and foster better collaboration.

Decision making with Hats, Haircuts and Tattoos
A framework for decisions, while also allowing for the differences and nuances of the situation and the experience of the people making them.

View more workshop models, tools and downloadable whiteboards on Emily’s page on the Miroverse or on Emily’s blog.
