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What Will Be Your Legacy:How Value-Added Will You Be?
David Osher, NDTAC
Overview
• Writing your job description• Effective management is not enough • Leading change and keeping your job: lessons
from the field• Empowerment comes in many ways• Focus is important• You can’t do it alone• You can’t do it without a strategy, efficiency,
monitoring, and evaluation
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Write Your Own Job Description
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What You Can Do
What You Can’t Do
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Your Assets•Individual •Organizational
Your Challenges•Individual•Organizational
Write Your Own Job Description
• Planning and Funding– How can you use the right data to inform
planning and funding?
• Monitoring– Can you leverage the monitoring process
to foster the right change?
• Reporting and Evaluation– Can you use reporting and evaluation data
to foster the right change?
Write Your Own Job Description
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Audacious Hope
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Effective Management Is Not Enough
• Compliance is not enough
• Leadership
• Change agents
• From good to great
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Leading Change and Keeping Your Job: Lessons From the Field
• Turning lemons into lemonade
• Leveraging the law
• Using data and information
• Building or supporting collaborations
• Knowing effective means of addressing the issues
• Empowerment comes in many ways
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Empowerment Comes in Many Ways
• What is your agency?
• Marketing—Walking in other people’s shoes
• Getting to yes
• Opportunism vs. leveraging opportunities
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Focus Is Important
• Value added for whom?
• A child- and family-focus is essential
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You Can’t Do It Alone
• Allies and being an ally
• The risks of opportunism and romanticism
• Emotional support
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Bowling Alone
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Bowling Together
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Strategy, Efficiency, Monitoring, Evaluation
• Timing—Is it a sprint or a marathon?
• Be strategic
• Be efficient
• Monitor results
• Evaluate outcomes
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Tack, But Don’t Lose Your Sense of Direction
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“You can padlock a building, but you can’t padlock an idea”
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Rosa Parks, Summer 1955
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So What Will Your Legacy Be?
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So How Can We Help?
