Formats
A Taste of Measurement
Introduction to You Get What You Measure®
You Get What You Measure® Modules
You Get What You Measure® in Use
Becoming a Measurement Guide
Pricing for You Get What You Measure® varies based on format, number of participants, preparation, and follow-up. Please contact Melissa Levy at our office for a personalized quote based on the needs and interests of your group or organization. She can be reached by phone at 802-524-6141 and by email at melissa@yellowwood.org.
A Taste of Measurement
This 3-hour overview of You Get What You Measure® is for those who want exposure to an alternative
interactive planning process that works. Includes:
- The power of measurement in everyday life and work
- Introduction to the measurement process
- Measurement vocabulary
- Identifying goals
- Including stakeholders
Introduction to You Get What You Measure®
A full-day immersion in the measurement process suitable for conferences and introductory in-house trainings.
Includes everything in a Taste of Measurement plus:
- Understanding indicators
- Analyzing indicators in a systems context
- Examining key assumptions
- Designing measures
- Planning for measurement
- Using the results of measurement
- Getting to action
You Get What You Measure® Modules
You can experience our powerful You Get What You Measure process in five introductory modules. Each module can be tailored to a 1-2 hour time period and can be offered individually or in combination. Outline of Modules:
- Goals
Using a case study, participants will share values, discover themes and then identify and write goals.
- Indicators
Participants will discover and learn to write indicators of progress toward a goal, while learning what makes a good indicator.
- Analyzing Indicators in a Systems Context
Participants will analyze a group of indicators of progress toward a particular goal in a systems context, while identifying assumptions along the way, to determine the key leverage indicator(s) and key results indicator(s).
- Measures
Participants will learn how to create a measure of progress of a key leverage indicator toward a particular goal, guidelines for measuring (what can and should be measured?), measuring “goods” versus “bads,” direct and indirect measures, dimensions in measurement, etc. Participants will learn how to use the results of measurement and how to create a measurement plan. Participants will learn basic approaches to gathering information.
- Actions
Participants will learn about information and direct action. Participants will learn how to develop actions and action plans to move the measure and indicator in the desired direction to make progress toward the goal. Participants will learn how to align new actions with current actions and activities and identify new partners in measurement and action.
You Get What You Measure® In Use
This two-day application allows community members, staff and/or employees of organizations, businesses,
and government to learn the measurement process while applying it to issues central to their missions.
Appropriate in an organizational development setting or wherever stakeholders come together to address
common concerns, the sessions may be delivered back-to-back or spread out over time.
Day One:
- The power of measurement in everyday life and work
- Overview of You Get What You Measure®
- Measurement Vocabulary
- Sharing Values
- Discovering Themes
- Identifying Goals
- Creating and Understanding Indicator
Day Two:
- Analyzing indicators in a systems context
- Recognizing and examining key assumptions
- Creating Measures
- Connecting goals, indicators, and measures
- Planning for measurement
- Using the results of measurement
- Getting to action step