Workshops

Habits of an Outcome-Oriented Organisation – Getting Good at Doing Good

Presented by: Nigel Richardson and Mike Pinnock

In this workshop, we’ll be exploring the central role that leadership plays in nurturing and sustaining what we’re calling ‘the outcome-orientated organisation’.  We’ll be sharing our experiences of how to use OBA to best effect in focusing efforts to improve outcomes for children and young people.

Establishing Common Purpose for Place-Based Outcomes through Partnership

Presented by: Michael McAfee, Marcos Marquez, and Dan Duncan

How do communities build movement towards outcomes and align partner contributions to deliver collective impact? Achieving the results we want requires a clear understanding of who we are serving and community priorities, a strong focus on leadership that values authentic demand, and partnerships that promote shared accountability.

Presented by: Phil Lee and David Burnby

OBA and, more specifically, leadership for outcomes can challenge traditional political boundaries and vice versa.  This workshop will explore both the elected and the organizational “politics” of OBA.  We will examine, with illustrative examples, a variety of challenges in and strategies for navigating the “politics” of implementing OBA.

Experiences from England, Northern Ireland and Wales

Presented by: Brendan Whittle and Rob Hutchinson, CBE

Much is said about achieving Culture change. Too often this becomes a conversation about restructuring. Real culture change means changing the way we and others think, and how we practice. This workshop will share our experiences of what good culture change looks like, getting buy-in, leadership, and some lessons learned.

A journey not a Destination.

Presented by: Dr. Richard Nugent, Deirdre McAliskey, and Gemma Donnelly

Highlighting the experience of Extern’s Belfast Intensive Family Support Service, this workshop will explore the challenges and rewards of embarking upon outcomes based performance management and the lessons learnt going forward.

Presented by: Adrian Davies and Diana Urban

Managing the money attached or not attached to outcomes. How do we move away from budget decisions based on outputs and think about outcomes and long term planning?

The Early Intervention Transformation Programme (EITP)

Presented by: Frances Lyons and Maurice Leeson

In this workshop Maurice and Frances will discuss the implementation of OBA across EITP which aims to improve outcomes for children and young people across Northern Ireland through embedding early intervention approaches and transforming mainstream services to in order to deliver a long-term legacy of improvement.

Presented by: Deitre Epps and Ruth Jordan

This interactive session will analyse specific case studies of OBA / RBA implementation in the health sector in the United States and in Wales. Presenters will share step by step methods for implementing OBA / RBA for community well-being and improved patient and client outcomes. Tips and techniques will be discussed based on practical experience and external evaluation.

Presented by: Karen Finn and Kate Tye

Turning curves on poverty and safety / Achieving collective impact in communities.

Presented by: Rob Hutchinson, CBE, Andy Gill, and Sara Tough

Dorset County Council have developed and are now implementing an innovative cross council Outcomes Framework. The workshop will focus on leadership and implementation of organisational and cultural change; what’s helped and hindered (lessons learnt) and early evidence of impact. What does “good” leadership look like in these times of austerity?

Presented by: Frances Lyons, Annie Armstrong, and David Simpson

Drawing on the experience of the Colin Early Intervention Community, this workshop will explore the challenges facing community leaders in maintaining a focus on outcomes in the face of competing priorities and funding mixes.

The Story of Vermont, Act 186 and Mark Friedman

Presented by: Diane Snelling and Mark Friedman

What does it mean to lead? Is it about courage or persistence? Is it singular or plural? If party politics isn’t the driver, what makes it possible to introduce new ideas? Can good policy be developed inside politics and outside of party?

When does an individual, or a group of colleagues, begin to believe there must be a better way to achieve results, and actually start looking?

What brings people to a common purpose? What keeps that purpose clear enough to keep unity growing?

Presented by: Karen Finn and Mike Pinnock

In this workshop we want to ask “What would it be like to work in an organisation that was all about outcomes?”.

How would you experience that in your day-to-day work?  And how could you use your position to shape how other people experienced it too?

Lots of fun and lots of reasonably priced ideas to help you through the final afternoon.

Presented by: Justin Miklas and Lauren Chambers

This session will provide an in-depth look at the tools created by Clear Impact to help non-profit and government organizations implement the OBA framework efficiently and effectively. This will include a demonstration of the Clear Impact Scorecard Software and overview of the new OBA Global Success Stories Library. We will also highlight and review various successfully ‘Turned-Curves’ from users around the world.

Planning, Budgeting and Accountability to Achieve Your Outcomes

Presented by: Andrew Kleine and Phil Lee

This session will feature a discussion of Baltimore, Maryland’s ground-breaking OutcomeStat initiative, which uses OBA to marry budgeting, planning, and program management. Participants will learn about how to break the inertia of the budget process and turn resources into results, make performance measurement more than a paperwork exercise, and create an outcome-based culture.

Early Intervention and turning curves for children and young people

Presented by: Anne McIntyre-Lahner, Allison Bourn, and Maania Farrar

Alison will discuss the implementation and use of RBA in the work of an indigenous community organisation, based in Christchurch New Zealand.

Maania will share the challenges and highlights of developing and implementing an indigenous outcomes framework that is designed to measure opportunities for Māori whānau (families) in the South Island (and outlying islands) of New Zealand to thrive.

Anne will share implementation of OBA/RBA across the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, creating an outcome-focused approach to agency and contract management, and improved outcomes for children and families.

Using RBA to Drive an Integrated Approach to Improving Outcomes

Presented by: Dru Roessle

Dru will share implementation of OBA/RBA within the Vermont Department of Health, and how OBA/RBA is used to reinforce the relationship between health and social well-being more broadly across the Agency of Human Services to improve population and client outcomes by a common agenda.

Focusing on the Challenges and Opportunities Along the Continuing Journey of Implementation.

Practice examples including a place-based framework, safeguarding, youth crime and communities.

Presented by: Steve Kay, Paul Caswell, and David Burnby

This workshop will focus on the OBA development journey within North East Lincolnshire, England. This will charter the journey from initial discussions focusing on work young people to safeguarding and then towards borough-wide application of OBA across the life course. This will include some examples of practice and application.