impact: from measurement to leadership (ncvo annual conference 2012)
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More presentations from the NCVO Annual conference: http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/networking-discussions/blogs/20591 will help you innovate in your work. Richard Piper, Head of Improvement and Innovation, NCVO Andrew Barnett, Director, Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationImpact thinking freshens the lifeblood of your organisation. Done well, it runs right through your organisation bringing shifting attitudes and behaviours, creating innovation, inspiration and dynamism. Done badly, it’s just a bunch of half-useful indicators and rather iffy data that clog up your system. If we start with leadership not measurement, we can end up with stronger and more adaptable organisations.This interactive session will debunk some myths, explain the five elements of impact and help you make a practical start on Impact Leadership.TRANSCRIPT
PM5 Impact: from measurement to leadership• Andrew Barnett, Director, Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation (UK)• Richard Piper, Director, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous
Children’s Charity (previously Head of Improvement and Innovation, NCVO)
A reflection: George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Common Assumptions
• leaders are born, not made;• leadership is a rare and uncommon talent;• leaders are necessarily charismatic;• leadership is found only at the top
organisations;• leaders are smarter and more creative than
the rest of us.
The Paradoxes of Leadership
• compassionate yet tough and assertive;• audacious yet humble;• consulting yet and motivating;• visionary yet realistic;• intentional yet authentic;• enthusiastic yet questioning;• uniters and also disrupters;• leaders but followers too.
When it comes to impact, maximising and measuring are two sides of the same coin
Our world is changing
• Resources are depleted• Need is greater - homelessness up - youth unemployment up - demands of our ageing society greater• Problems are more complex and inter-related
The challenge for our sector
• Reconfigure organisational structures• Collaborate• Innovate • Demonstrate what works• Scale and replicate
1. Diagnosis2. Guiding principles3. Coherent action
Our diagnosis
• We have the scope to work across agenda and build unusual coalitions
• We are small suggesting a focus on innovation and strategic philanthropy
• We are part of something much bigger and international
Guiding Principles
Transformation over Transaction, acting:• Innovatively• Internationally• and involvingly.
Coherent action: the lifecycle of a programme
1 •Scoping: research and consultation to identify most effective intervention in response to an issue/problem
2 •Objectives and outcomes: developing a plan of activity to maximise beneficial impact including determining what success might look like.
3 •Implementation: might include funding pilot projects.
4 •Evaluation: assessing impact and discerning learning.
5 •Dissemination: targeted communication of the learning to those who can make a difference, can change systems, scale or replicate successful initiatives.
6 •Exit: concluding the programme
The quest to measure value
Funders and commissioners have a vital role to play in incentivising good outcomes measurement – funders need to incorporate evaluation data into subsequent rounds of grant giving in order for organisations to see a return for their efforts, and commissioners need to put money aside in contracts specifically for the evaluation of projects.
Measuring Social Value Demos 2010
Our experience: drivers and lessons• Need to maximise impact• Need to tell a compelling story to partners and
collaborators and to the wider sectors• Need to extract learning from individual
activities• Desire to set an example and to lead: to be at
the forefront of thinking and practice
A vital planning tool: the delivery cycle
Our emerging ‘theory of change’
• Scoping• Coalition building• Persuading• Demonstrating• Learning and improvement
Coalitions co-founded by Gulbenkian
Thank you