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Great Evaluation: Demonstrating how Collins’ Good to Great concepts are relevant to evaluation organizations
Matt Feldmann, Ph.D.
Goshen Education Consulting, Inc.
October 26, 2012
American Evaluation Association
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USASlide2
Overview
Good to Great
Background
Framework
Disciplined People: Level 5 Leadership
Disciplined People: First Who…then What
Disciplined Thought: Confront the Brutal Facts
Disciplined Thought: The Hedgehog Concept
Disciplined Action: Culture of Discipline
Disciplined Action: Technology Accelerators
The Flywheel Concept
RecapSlide3
Good to Great Background
Key question: What elements are common among companies that made the leap from good to great
Study of 11
Good to Great
companies that beat the market by 3x and a comparison group that did not.
Book published in 2001
>
4 million copies
soldSlide4
FrameworkSlide5
Disciplined People: Level 5 Leadership
T
wo
unusual personalities
extreme
personal humility
intense
professional
will
LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
Level 1 – Highly Capable Individual – Makes productive contributions through talent, knowledge, skills, and good work habitsLevel 2 – Contributing Team Member – Contributes individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives and works effectively with others in a group settingLevel 3 – Competent Manager – Organizes people and resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit of pre-determined objectivesLevel 4 – Effective Leader – Catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and compelling vision, stimulating higher performance standards.Level 5 – Executive – Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.
Evaluation Context“high quality, ethically defensible, culturally responsive evaluation practices”1 Puts Organizational goals before personal professional goals
1
American
Evaluation Association (2012).
Values
. Retrieved on October 11, 2012 from:
http://www.eval.org/aboutus/organization/aboutus.aspSlide6
Disciplined People: First Who…then What
People are not the greatest
resource…
…the
right people are an organization’s greatest
resource
Put the
right people on the bus and getting the wrong people
off
Support your talentShift people around on the bus
Evaluation ContextThree evaluation skillsets:people skills, technical skills, and project management skills.When in doubt…wait and don’t hire anyone.Slide7
Disciplined Thought: Confront the Brutal Facts
Create an unfiltered
objective view of the
workplace
Stockdale Paradox
Lead with questions, without blame
Evaluation Context
Take what we do for our clients and apply it to ourselves
Market outlook
Organizational competency
Meta-evaluation
IC TIG – Proposal/Report ReviewSlide8
Disciplined Thought: The Hedgehog Concept
What drives your economic engines?
What can
be the best in the world
at?
What are you deeply passionate about
?Slide9
Disciplined Action: Culture of Discipline
Disciplined action is a natural resultant of the previous concepts.
Fanatical
adherence to the Hedgehog
Concept
Not just goal discipline
Stop Doing List
Evaluation Context
Goshen Education Example
Integrity
,
Locality, Clarity, and ContinuitySlide10
Disciplined Action: Technology Accelerators
Technology
as an accelerator only after a clear understanding for their organizational culture and
goals
Technology is not necessarily computing
Not playing catch-up or using it for technology sake
Evaluation Context
Common Technology Applications
Email, Facebook,
LinkedIN
Web surveys, SPSS
Is technology right for you?Facebook?Twitter?Blogs?Slide11
The Flywheel ConceptSlide12
Recap & Questions
Contact Information
Matt Feldmann, Ph.D.
Principal Researcher
Goshen Education Consulting, Inc.
95 N Research Drive, Suite 110
Edwardsville, IL 62025
(p) 618-751-2807
(f) 866-339-4422
mfeldmann@goshenedu.com