MEL360 Practical Tools

This Miro board includes facilitation templates for 9 of the tools described in the “How-To” sheets below.

To use them, go to this link, log into Miro, and duplicate the board into your own workspace.

This MEL 360 tool helps define shared long-term purpose

This MEL 360 tool helps define scope and focus

This MEL 360 tool helps define scope and focus

This MEL 360 tool helps define scope and focus

This MEL 360 tool helps understanding where and how you can act

This MEL 360 tool helps understanding where and how you can act

This MEL 360 tool supports framing system shifts in design and observing deeper patterns in implementation.

This MEL 360 tool helps revisiting your system boundaries and spheres of influence to understand how the context has shifted and where you can act

This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change

This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change

This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change

This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change

This MEL 360 tool helps observing emerging signals and track patterns of change

This MEL 360 tool helps adapting your strategy and MEL based on system feedback

This MEL 360 tool helps exploring three broad types of evaluations:

1. Evaluations of the system - not your initiative.

2. Evaluations to support innovation - specifically developmental Evaluation.

3. Evaluations of your initiative’s Contribution to Systems Change

This MEL 360 tool helps understanding various archetypes of Learning Partners, which can play a vital role in embedding learning and activating learning partnerships within systems change. Their purpose is to centre a learning approach and build ownership of learning among those closest to the work.

This checklist helps you stay grounded in the three core Systems MEL principles—Let Learning Lead, Act Within the Whole, and Start Where You Are—so you can design, implement, and reflect in ways that stay relevant, adaptive, and meaningful.

This template helps you assess six key conditions that affect how ready your organization is to adopt Systems MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning).