Cultivating Trust and Navigating Power
Exploring relationships as drivers of implementation and collaboration.
🗓️ Enrollment open year-round
⏱️ Self-paced
💻 100% Online
Creating change is a social process
In implementation, collaboration is key.
People need to work together and our relationships are extremely important.
We know that trust is foundational for enacting change that power dynamics are a major part of change efforts. But knowing isn’t enough.
What can we actually do with this awareness?
How can we strengthen our relationships to help us achieve our goals — and be more effective in how we collaborate to create change?
Why trust and power?
Being able to cultivate trust and navigate power dynamics are essential for creating change, yet they’re rarely taught in practical ways.
People aren't usually trained in building trust and addressing power between individuals and organizations. It's often assumed that either you have these skills or you don't. Or that you can acquire them through mentorship by following others’ examples.
But we've seen that even those who have great success in working with others often aren't able to articulate what they do, why they do it, or how they do it.
We created this course to show you how authentic collaboration can transform your change efforts
Throughout 8 modules, we will:
Help you dig deep into what trust and power truly are
Show you how to assess your individual and inter-organizational relationships
Empower you with tangible actions you can move forward with immediately
This course is for you if…
You've hit roadblocks in your work and wish you had tools to steer your collaborative efforts in a better direction.
You understand that nurturing relationships is important for your work but you’re not sure which gaps to fill. You want to be able to identify what's working, what's not, and what to do next.
You want to enhance your approach to practical implementation and contribute to your team's success.
Who might benefit
from this course?
We designed this course for professionals across all fields.
Because no matter where you work, if you want to create any kind of change, being able to collaborate with others effectively leads to progress.
And since our background is in implementation science, this course will be especially helpful to teams that provide implementation support.
By taking this course, you’ll learn...
The core components of
trust and power
The relationship between trust, power, and implementation
Special considerations for organizations when assessing trust and power
How to assess trust and power in your relationships
Actions that directly tap into the
core components for strengthening
the way you collaborate
Practical guidance and roleplay examples to illustrate how to apply these strategies to your relationships
What’s included in this course
🎥 15+ informative videos led by your instructors, Dr. Julia Moore and Dr. Sobia Khan
🎙️ 4 conversational podcasts where we illustrate examples and strategies for cultivating trust and navigating power
⏺️ Recorded scenarios where we demonstrate how actions can be put into practice to inspire you to take action in the real world
📝 Interactive activities to exercise your ability to apply you've learned
📖 Self-reflective assignments that enable you to make connections between course concepts and your work
📎 PDF workbooks containing overviews of course concepts, activities, and assignments
📚 Readings and resources recommended by our expert team
💬 Direct communication with our course facilitators to answer your questions as you move through the material
📒 Bonus: Glossary of compiled key terms and definitions
⚙️ Access to our PDF resource, the Cultiv8 Process: An 8-Part Plan to Assess, Reflect, and Take Action on Trust and Power, an effective guide to strengthen how you collaborate.
This resource breaks down the steps of three key processes for understanding trust and power.
It includes a collection of practical actions for increasing the level of trust others have in you and for demonstrating your trust in them, based on your specific assessment of power in each relationship.
By enrolling, you’ll receive the Activity Guide PDF that contains the full instructions on the process plus the Quick Start PDF that condenses the instructions and focuses on the worksheet elements.
🎓 Certificate of completion after successfully completing the course and assignments
👥 Networking opportunities with other course participants
🗓 Access to all course materials for 1 year so you can go back and review what you’ve learned as needed
Explore the Cultiv8 tool now!
Stemming from the Cultiv8 Process is our free Cultiv8 tool.
This tool will help you select specific trust and power actions for strengthening your relationships with other individuals, groups, and organizations.
Implementation Support Specialist Certificate
If you’re interested in becoming a Certified Level 2 Implementation Support Specialist, this course counts towards the Level 2 requirements.
Note: Level 2 certification is currently in development.
Meet your instructors
“Relationship building is a core part of implementation because people enact change together. I have time and time again seen that trust and power can make or break collective action. We put this course together to help people through the vital parts of implementation that are never formally taught - how to deconstruct the nature of trust and power, and how to use strategies that can strengthen our relationships and mitigate power dynamics. Thinking about trust and power has been life changing for me and I hope it will be life changing for others as well.”
“I love talking about frameworks and theories, but a couple years ago I started noticing that I was getting more questions about relationships than about frameworks. In reflecting on the questions we were getting, we realized so many of people's challenges in partnering and collaborating to make change happen are centred around issues of trust and power. That’s why I am so excited about this course. We take a really practical and actionable approach to providing guidance on dealing with the relationship challenges that come with creating change.”
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Course schedule
This course is 100% online and asynchronous. This means that you can learn whenever and wherever you want to!
You’ll have access to all modules right after you enroll, so you can move through the content at a pace that works best for you.
📅 Key dates
Enrollment opens Jan. 14, 2025
➡️ Access all course content for 1 year
Module Overview
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Learn about the activities involved in planning for implementation, implementing, spreading, and scaling an initiative; roles in the implementation system; planning for sustainability; and grounding implementation in equity.
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Understand why trust and power are so important for implementation.
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Unpack the core components and foundations of trust. You'll learn about the Tower of Trust analogy, which helps us think differently about trust between people and organizations.
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Explore power and fairness with an analogy about power – the Jewels of Power. You'll learn how to identify core expressions of power (i.e., types of power, forms of power, and power spaces).
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Utilize the Cultiv8 Process: An 8-Part Plan to Assess, Reflect, and Take Action on Trust and Power. This process will help you assess trust and power dynamics and provide practical strategies based on your assessment.
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Identify actions to address situations involving competence and apply them in your work.
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Focus on actions you can take to build stronger connections.
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Explore actions that enhance authenticity in relationships.
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Reinforce your learning by observing roleplay examples and participating in interactive scenarios about trust and power.
We believe in
competency-based learning.
This table shows which implementation support core competencies and functions are relevant in this course.
Learn more about TCI's Implementation Support Core Competencies and Functions.
Hover over each item to view its definition.
Enroll as a team or organization!
Participating as a large group provides immense benefits to teams and organizations.
By progressing through the training together, you and your team will establish a shared understanding of concepts, terminology, tools, and processes to ultimately enhance your change initiatives.
This also creates opportunities for greater engagement and connection among team members as you can discuss the training content together and meet to share your thoughts and reflections.
We highly recommend this collaborative approach to building implementation capacity.
Special discounts based on the size of your group and add-ons like facilitation guides, Q&A sessions, and other types of support are available.
Have a discount code?
Discounts are available for past participants of TCI’s paid courses, Implementing Change Community members (join anytime!), full-time students, groups of 3+, participants in LMICs, and Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) members.
Free spots for participants in LMICs
In an effort to support capacity building in applying implementation science in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), we offer 40 free spots for eligible professionals to enroll in one of our courses twice per year.
We'll open up applications for these spots again in May. Please check back then or join our mailing list to be notified.
Frequently asked questions
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Starting on Jan. 14, 2025 this course will be open for enrollment year-round. That means you can join anytime!
You'll have access to all course modules and materials for 1 year from the date you enroll, so you can move through the content on your own schedule.
If you’re interested in receiving a certificate of completion, you’ll have until the end of your 1-year course access period to submit your completed assignments.
Our course facilitators will be regularly answering any questions you have throughout your 1-year access period as well.
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Yes, the entire course is online and asynchronous, so it can be completed at a pace that works best for you. There are no live learning components.
While we we’ve designed the modules in an intentional order and recommend working through the course chronologically, you are free to navigate the course in whatever order best suits your learning.
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If you finish all modules and the 8 assignments prior to the end of your 1-year course access period, you’ll receive a certificate of completion.
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The time commitment varies, but we estimate each module takes 4-8 hours to complete, which includes time spent on assignments.
The assignments are about directly relating the content back to your experiences and your work; therefore, how much time can be quite variable depending on how much background work you choose to do.
In terms of the resources provided, it’s up to you how many you’d like to take a look at!
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You’ll have access to all course content for 1 year starting from the date you enroll.
Before your access ends, we encourage you to revisit the content and download the available course materials.
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Our course facilitators respond regularly to questions posted in the comment sections of the course. This is where you can receive direct support.
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Yes! Cultivating Trust and Navigating Power will count towards the requirements for the Level 2 Implementation Support Specialist certification which is currently in development.
If you’re interested in becoming certified, please note that the Level 1 Implementation Support Specialist certification must be completed before moving on to Level 2. Learn more about our certificate program.
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Yes, we aim to make Cultivating Trust and Navigating Power accessible to everyone. We offer the following discounts (one per person):
20% off for past participants of TCI’s paid courses
20% off for members of the Implementing Change Community (Join anytime!)
20% off for groups of 3+ (additional discounts are available for large groups)
20% off for Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) members
30% off for full-time students
70% off for individuals in low- and middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank
Please see the “Have a discount code?” section above for how to get your code.
Still wondering if this course is right for you?
We encourage you to enroll if any of these apply to you:
You know there's more you can do to be a better collaborator — you want to be proactive but aren't sure where to start
You want to be able to assess your relationships more accurately so your interactions are both authentic and strategic
You want to move towards your goals with greater clarity and have tools to draw from to feel better about your day-to-day experiences with others
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Download this handy PDF—it includes learning objectives, course highlights, and a module overview. Perfect for sharing with your team!
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Interested in getting a sense of our teaching style?
Enroll in Inspiring Change 2.0, our free mini-course on the foundations of implementation science, or watch the recording of our free virtual workshops on Practical Guidance for Embodying Equity in Implementation!
