Liked this 5MSM - particularly the challenge of measuring what matters or evidencing impact, which has been a source of frustration throughout my career in disability services.
It will be imperative for the success and sustainability of the NDIS to embed some robust and comprehensive outcome measurements, otherwise the scheme will keep drifting towards a costly 'maintenance of care' model rather than a developmental approach that enables people to be as independent as possible.
A brilliant example of the point I'm making Phillip. Back in the day when I found jobs for people with disabilities, I was less interested in the metric of a 'job placement' and much more interested in (a) disposable income in the hands of my client; and (b) lifestyle changes that that enabled for them, coupled with (c) self-identity benefits from being a 'worker', not a 'welfare recipient'.
Also on the topic of measurement, I had a great insight from a book "Let's get real or not play" on measurement of things that we typically think can't be measured - the soft things like morale, trust, communication and so on... peel for pain and peel for gain - when a bad thing happens, what happens next? What are the consequences, who cares and for what reason. And if a good thing happens, what will that allow you to do that you can't do today? Who benefits, for what reason and in what way? These questions should peel to something that is more quantifiable and can be measured.
I'd like to think that breathwork, which I do with my coaching clients now and is seen as a real novelty, eventually becomes universal. Interestingly, it was very mainstream in the late 1800s and early 1900s and wasn't until the 1950s that it disappeared from medical practice... which also coincides with the rise in big pharma. Breathwork is free!
Liked this 5MSM - particularly the challenge of measuring what matters or evidencing impact, which has been a source of frustration throughout my career in disability services.
It will be imperative for the success and sustainability of the NDIS to embed some robust and comprehensive outcome measurements, otherwise the scheme will keep drifting towards a costly 'maintenance of care' model rather than a developmental approach that enables people to be as independent as possible.
A brilliant example of the point I'm making Phillip. Back in the day when I found jobs for people with disabilities, I was less interested in the metric of a 'job placement' and much more interested in (a) disposable income in the hands of my client; and (b) lifestyle changes that that enabled for them, coupled with (c) self-identity benefits from being a 'worker', not a 'welfare recipient'.
Also on the topic of measurement, I had a great insight from a book "Let's get real or not play" on measurement of things that we typically think can't be measured - the soft things like morale, trust, communication and so on... peel for pain and peel for gain - when a bad thing happens, what happens next? What are the consequences, who cares and for what reason. And if a good thing happens, what will that allow you to do that you can't do today? Who benefits, for what reason and in what way? These questions should peel to something that is more quantifiable and can be measured.
I'd like to think that breathwork, which I do with my coaching clients now and is seen as a real novelty, eventually becomes universal. Interestingly, it was very mainstream in the late 1800s and early 1900s and wasn't until the 1950s that it disappeared from medical practice... which also coincides with the rise in big pharma. Breathwork is free!
Hi Andrew
Your 5 minute post adds to my Happy Friday.
Like Phillip the challenge of impact measurement is frustrating and maybe a factor in few collective spaghetti faces
Exactly Andrew!