WORKSHOPS: Learn to build and measure for impact
1/2 or Full day Workshops for Teams
Impact-centred planning: form a high-level strategic roadmap that directs the team
Activated Project Design: create the portrait of engagement/response for Key Initiatives
Interpret Signals: reflect and assess data to make sense of traction and feedback as a group
Retro & Respond: integrate learnings into approach to deepen what’s working
WORKSHOP TYPE: Roadmapping & Strategic Planning
1 - Impact-centred planning: form a high-level strategic roadmap that directs the team & creates real value
Using an opportunity mapping framework, the team translates strategy into clear direction for the year ahead. Walk away with a prioritized Roadmap reflecting a tangible vision of what supporter activation looks like and clarity about how projects will be in service to your Theory of Change.
This powerful directed session leads a team collaboratively through engaging activities to stress-test potential projects against 5 key dimensions of value creation. You’ll use learnings to run effort forecasts, and scope priority work against outcomes to align your focus towards the audiences you want to reach most.
WORKSHOP TYPE: Project Build
2 - Activated Project Design: create the portrait of engagement for Key Initiatives
Build the measurable vision of what great engagement looks like to identify what to measure. Stakeholders come together to decide on priority audiences, approach and purpose. The group works on defining the most promising pathways to enabling engagement, as well as learning areas to understand accessibility, relevance and reach. The group aligns on specific signals to monitor and interpret the scale of response. It directs a group through the process of:
defining the groups you wish to invite response from most
designing key pathways to activate audiences aligned with their preferences, with resolutions to overcome barriers to engage
describing how to recognize the traction to correlate to higher order impact.
This forms an explicit rationale for why we believe the strategies will deliver strong, aligned response using the data available.
WORKSHOP TYPE: Analysis for non-analysts
3 - Interpret Signals: reflect and assess data to make sense of traction and feedback as a group
Assess results with contrast to do meaning-making: the team collects a holistic range of feedback to make correlations. The assessment surfaces signals of impact to tell the story of changes: contrasting against the original vision, looking for standout trends, noting discoveries and extracting insights about audience experience to find which strategies or directions worked as expected.
By summarizing the portrait of response data and incorporating relevant feedback, the team is empowered to form a perspective about the results by:
interpreting how traction signals relate to strategies used
assessing the degree to which outcomes were fulfilled against intent
doing outcome and insight harvesting to synthesize discoveries for wider knowledge sharing
examine quality of engagement/response and trends emerging about enabling factors and barriers
WORKSHOP TYPE: Insight Integration
4 - Retro & Respond: integrate learnings into approach to deepen what’s working
The team has a facilitated discussion about the experience of delivering the initiative to draw out learnings about how they work. These operational insights are then contrasted against project discoveries and outcomes. Explore:
what are the brilliant moments?
how well does the work flow?
what is the team tolerating?
did the team's level of excitement change in the week?
where does it feel slow?
Workshop Package: Impact Studio
Workshops are available individually as day-long or half day interactive sessions for a working team and their leader. All together they form the complete Meaningful Measurement Program that is packaged with additional 4 hours of coaching support.
This fulsome project support system sets a team up with strong, measurable outcomes followed by a distinct structure to pilot agile (ie: responsive and collaborative) methods of designing, assessing and integrating insights about what matters to users. Your end of year reports will be simplified from having these in house assessments produced, with insights and recommendations at the ready.
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