Rethinking impact measurement

Who is it for?

Team and organisational leaders who wish to approach measurement and impact evaluation from a regenerative paradigm
Responsibles for internal change processes and within HR departments

What’s included?

A guided process in your team or organisation to jointly make sense of measurement
Access to Unity Effect’s models, templates and resources
Support in designing evaluation frameworks as well as processes and methods for data collection

Duration

Ranging from shorter and more intense processes (1-2 months) to longer-term support and guidance (1+ year)

Expected Outcome

The core intention is to align all your measurement and evaluation practices with the purpose of your team’s or organisation’s work. This includes:

Grounding all data collection activities to the values and principles dear to you
Identifying ways to make measurement engaging, intuitive and relevant
Integrating inner dimensions and capacities into the evaluation

Our indicator for success in rethinking impact measurement is when your measurement processes and practices give more energy to people and your causes than they take.

Working on the Soil: Foundational Topics

Thriving & Growing: Deep-Dive Topics

Effective team communication and meeting culture

Meetings take up a lot of our time and can drain our energy instead of contributing to meaningful collaboration. Together with you, we analyse your current meeting structure and culture to harness the potential of asynchronous and synchronous work.

Giving & receiving feedback

An organism without sensory input is blind to change and adaptation. Constructive and precise feedback is an essential part of team communication. Considering the statement “clear is kind”, we reflect on a variety of feedback situations and processes.

Empowering team decision-making

Clarity on the process of decision-making can boost team collaboration. Collectively we begin to unlearn old patterns of decision-making and create space to set up and practise appropriate new tools and processes.

Purpose & values in teams

Gain clarity about your team’s purpose & values and how they can support your daily and strategic work.

Trust & team psychological safety

Explore conditions & practices to increase the magic ingredient for effective teamwork: trust.

Giving & receiving feedback

Learn communication practices and approaches for more mindful and effective feedback conversations.

Empowering team decision-making

Learn tools & methods to make decision-making more inclusive, efficient & empowering.

Setting boundaries & saying no

Practise setting and respecting boundaries in leadership and teamwork, and learn tools to communicate them.

Leading with purpose & values

Develop clarity about your purpose & values and how they can guide you as a leader.

Building resilience & handling stress

Develop supportive practices for you and your team to deal with stress and navigate challenges.

Leadership in a changing and complex world

Equip yourself for wayfinding in a VUCA world (volatile - uncertain - complex - ambiguous).

Peer learning in organisations & networks

Tap into the wealth of knowledge, lived experiences and diverse perspectives that are present within every group.

The Impact Garden

Discover a regenerative approach to Theories of Change to create new insights and foster a deeper understanding of your project and work.

Rethinking impact measurement

Learn about measurement as an opportunity to foster participation, reveal hidden potential, and to serve people and the planet.

Collaborative Innovation

Explore how corporations, governments, and civil society can co-create ecosystems that foster life-centered innovation.

Find the right kind of support

Get in touch to rethink how impact measurement could look like for you and your organisation or network.

Our Approach

We have a bunch of resources and models in our back pocket. But what truly matters is listening to you, the meaning you find in your work, and the positive change you wish to help make.

Out of that deeper understanding of your work we can adjust, let go of, and co-develop evaluation frameworks with meaningful metrics, as well as data collection methods embedded in your daily and strategic work.

Our support in this exploration can range from shorter processes, where we facilitate those deeper conversations and share relevant models and resources with you, to longer-term guidance on implementing regenerative data collection within your organisation.

In all cases, our underlying intention is for you to build up your internal capacities to rethink and remodel how you measure success.

Reach out if this sparks your interest.

The Unity Effect team offered an interactive workshop on impact measurement as part of our workshop series on social entrepreneurship. Designed as an introduction to the topic, they did a great job of conveying the theoretical building blocks and engaging participants through practical exercises. Impact measurement is a rather daunting topic for many. But thanks to Unity Effect, it became clear to participants why it is so relevant, how to put it into action and how to even have fun with it!

Ulrike Trenz

Impact Hub Ruhr

Jannik Kaiser from Unity Effect accepted the invitation to contribute in one of our global working groups with his expertise in impact measurement. He contributed with developing a methodological framework which links farm-level metrics with the SDGs. Not only was he very attentive, constructive and supportive in internal discussions, he also managed to present a highly complex subject in an accessible and concise manner to a global audience of sustainability experts and value chain stakeholders. I am grateful for his inspiring co-leadership as an expert, presenter and (temporary) team member.

Dr. Renè Capote

Senior Technical Expert and Co-Facilitator of the Focus Group Environmental Sustainability in Crop Production, GLOBALG.A.P.

With Unity Effect, we have a partner who understands our approach very well and with whom we can tackle impact measurement and management (IMM) for our project in an agile and adaptive way. The regenerative impact measurement approach in particular fits very well with our vision at SEND e.V. Through close collaboration with Unity Effect and their outstanding support, we can learn a lot ourselves to build our own competence and expertise in the IMM area!

Martha Marik

Project Manager, SEND e.V.

Pricing

Based on our core principles to empower collaboration and solidarity we aim at a pricing that feels fair and appropriate for both parties.

Day Rates

EUR

Net

EUR +19% VAT

Day rates apply due to the customised nature of this service.

The exact day rate is determined together with the customer, based on what feels fair and appropriate for both parties.

Find the right kind of support

Get in touch to rethink how impact measurement could look like for you and your organisation or network.

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