Define success and the path
Get your team, partners, and community agreeing on what success means, and how you will know you are getting there.
Connect with NaderSound familiar?
When this goes unsolved, it shows up like this.
Success is vague
"Equity" and "quality jobs" mean something different to each partner.
Metrics are unclear or missing
No one can tell if the work is on track.
The team is not aligned
Priorities blur, work gets duplicated, time is lost.
Stakeholders are confused
Partners hear different stories, and trust erodes.
The plan is too big to start
Thirty metrics on day one, and nothing gets tracked.
How I approach it
Three moves, done with your team.
Find the real problem
Map root causes and consequences together.
Agree on success
Leaders, partners, and community choose the measures.
Phase the plan
What to track now, next, and later.
We Prosper Together
Many partners, many definitions of success, and no shared way to track progress.
Problem tree, theory of change, success thresholds, 14 metrics, and a phased tracking plan.
One shared framework that partners helped shape, and a team ready to run it.
The lessonDefine success with the people who will be measured by it. Then start with what your team can track this quarter.
Delivered by The Triangle, with advisory support from colleagues at UC Berkeley.
Also applied in
The same approach, in other settings.
California Jobs FirstDesigned evaluation methods for the $600M statewide program, as Senior Advisor in the Governor's Office.
SHCLA, The UnionA logic model linking supportive housing to lower crisis-system costs. See the story
Three ways to work on this
Start small with a workshop, or go deep together.
Build with you
Build your problem tree, theory of change, metrics, and tracking plan with your team.
Training and coaching
A workshop where leaders and partners agree on success and choose the measures.
Learning and evaluation
A review of your current metrics: what is missing, what to cut.
Tools you can use
Measure What Matters diagnosticTwelve questions on how ready you are to track success. [link]
Success metrics templateMetric, threshold, baseline, frequency, and data source. [Coming soon]
[Placeholder: link a related Impact Angle issue or talk.]
Explore the problems I help solve
Each one comes from real work with public initiatives.