Impact Reporting

I've started working with organizations on the idea of Impact Reporting. It's really quite simple but its another means to measure success. The more I see the more I realize that we are terrible at measuring success or at least measuring the movement toward a goal. Truth is... it's difficult. Plus, it isn't required of many people.

The goal in all our efforts has to be to build a baseline and measure off that baseline. An Impact Report is simply a tool to accumulate those measures and progress toward them. Declination North has created a generalized tool with various options for what could populate an Impact Report and we're using that to help organizations reach their goals.

The reports are simple and often called dashboards for organizations. It might look like a health report or a stock review but however the report is compiled and designed it must function to track plan to actual.

If you take the time to do this your efforts will be more fruitful, your leadership will be more impressed, you'll have the tools to move forward with accuracy of impact, and you'll find your role more fulfilling.

Challenge: Take the time before a project to note what you intend on reporting and then consider how to measure that project's goal.