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More about implementation…
August 27, 2008
Cassandra O’Neill
Wholonomy Consulting llc
www.wholonomyconsulting.com
Strengths based
assessment,
design, and
implementation
Strength based assessment, design and implementation
Discuss in Pairs
1. What is it?
2. How is it important?
3. How might it be different from traditional approaches?
Mechanical and Living Systems
In pairs discuss,
What do we know about each?
How are they different?
How does this affect our work in the social sector?
Review – a few slides…
The majority of implementation attempts are NOT successful
Implementation Attempts
• In business, change initiatives that are heavily dependent on people (reengineering, TQM, culture change) fail 80-90% of the time
R. W. Rogers, 2002
Implementation Attempts – slide 2
About 10% of what is taught in training gets transferred to the jobR. W. Rogers, 2002
Implementation Attempts – part 3
"Up to 70% of the failures in business are not due to poor strategy or a lack of good ideas, but to flawed execution." R. W. Rogers, 2002
What Does Not Work
Things that alone – are not enough for successful implementation:
Dissemination of information by itself does not lead to successful implementation (research literature, mailings, promulgation of practice guidelines)
What Does Not Work
Things that alone – are not enough for successful implementation:
Training alone, no matter how well done, does not lead to successful implementation
My aha, about the difference between implementing new program and implementing changes in existing programs, organizations, systems,
What paradigm are these traditional approaches in?
What paradigms do the solutions lie in?
Exercise 1
Situation – the majority of children in a village in Southeast Asia are malnourished
In pairs, what would a traditional response to this be?
Share with whole group
Exercise 1 part 2
In pairs, what would an alternative response be? What would a strengths based response be?
Report out to whole group
What was actually done
What Paradigm?
In pairs,
What paradigm are we thinking in with each response?
Awareness test
Play video now
What we find
Is often a result of what we look for
If time..
A few more situations..
Situation A. Student Achievement
Situation B. Teenage Pregnancy
Situation C. Child in preschool
What paradigm is the dominant paradigm?
What paradigm are we operating from?
21st Century Solutions lie within the intersection of
and interaction between
Sufficiency Paradigm
Dynamical Human SystemsNon linear
Brain/Neuroscience findings
Strengths and ResiliencyBuilding
21st Century Solutions DO NOT Lie within the intersection of
Scarcity Paradigm
Linear and Mechanistic SystemsDeficit Approach
Back to..
Strengths based assessment, design and implementation
How it might be different for us as consultants…
Typically who does assessment, design and implementation?
Traditional Funding
Funders – assess problems, design solutions and put out RFPs with the design of the solution
Grantees implement, often no way to influence design
Traditional Consulting
Clients – assess problems, identify solutions – put out RFP’s with the designed solution
Consultants implement, often no way to influence definition, assessment or design – which limits impact
And also results in having to implement a solution that is really a method – and frequently not the best method for achieving the actual desired outcome
Traditional Consulting
Is often in the deficit paradigm… examples include needs assessments, grant writing, strategic planning that asks for SWOT analysis… etc.
My recent aha about traditional approaches – the weasel card .. When you are in danger of being attached by an enemy.. Analyzing threats and weaknesses of both the “enemy” and your own group is important to survival
However..
When you are not in a war, if you apply that thinking to your organization.. You are treating your co-workers, clients, and staff..
The way you would treat an enemy
Strength based Consulting
What might strengths based consulting look like?.... Grounded in principles of strengths based collaboration…
Principles of strengths basedcollaboration
The solutions lie within the system, the best and most sustainable solutions come from the exploration and discovery of what is working with in a system.
When all levels in the system are participating and each person is bringing their strengths to the discussion of what the situation is and what people want to see happen (outcomes not methods) then strategies are co-created.
Traditional vs. Strengths Based Collaboration
Traditional Strength Based
Based on “perceived” need rather than strengths or assets
Ignore sustainability until it is too late – after implementation
Low-impact partnerships
Based in Scarcity Paradigm
Based in mechanistic paradigm, hierarchical, command and control
Driven by one organization, trying to impose ideas or message on others
Focused on finding more money to deliver services
Traditional vs. Strengths Based Collaboration
Traditional Strength Based
Based on “perceived” need rather than strengths or assets
Based on inquiry of strengths and assets that are available
Ignore sustainability until it is too late – after implementation
Design activities, programs, changes to be sustainable
Low-impact partnerships High-impact partnerships
Based in Scarcity Paradigm Based in Sufficiency Paradigm
Based in mechanistic paradigm, hierarchical, command and control
Based in alternative paradigm i.e. dynamical systems, human systems, self organization
Driven by one organization, trying to impose ideas or message on others
Attracted to a shared vision, to create outcomes only possible collectively
Focused on finding more money to deliver services
Focused on increasing impact
Reflection
What are we noticing ?
Strength based Consulting
What might strengths based consulting look like?.... Asset Mapping, Impact Assessments, Can do assessments – what can we do…
Strengths based strategic planning..
What is next?
October 16 meeting in Tucson – Azenet Tucson Cluster
November 18 – in Phoenix Strengths based evaluation and consulting
Group to modify and adapt Kentucky Tool?
Review more implementation resources, the CBAM model…
Remember this?
Community Readiness Model developed by Edwards, Jumper-Thurman, Plested, Oetting & Swanson (2000)
No Awareness
Denial
Vague Awareness
Initiation Stabilization
Preparation
Preplanning
A Resource
See handout – last page is titled Mapping System Change & Innovation
Is this an alternative which uses neutral or strengths based rather than deficit language?
What paradigm are we in ?
Quote…
Our traditional mind-set has focused on social, political, and ecological problems as lying outside of ourselves. As a result, we try to overcome problems by conquest or negotiation, which has the effect of reinforcing our perceptions of inherent separation..
Quote continued
From deep within that mind-set springs the violence that today dominates much of our consciousness. Look at the language we use to describe society’s problems. We declare war on poverty and addiction. Doctors use “aggressive” methods on the critical patient, drugs are described as magic “bullets,” and we are given “shots” to “fight” disease. Briggs and Peat Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom From the Science of Change