If you’re unsure how to organise your outcomes, help is at hand
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Makerble is designed to help you achieve your project’s ambitions
On Makerble you can turn Makerble does this by organising your project’s ambitions into 5 stages of progress
Because those these 5 stages of progress are measurable, you now have an easy way to see how well your project is doing at achieving its ambitions
Activity and Engagement are things that you can simply count. Those are called outputs
Potential, Behaviour and Success aren’t things that you can simply count. They need to be defined. So
firstly you should describe them a statement with a direction. Each of these statements is an outcome.
secondly, you should find choose something you can look at that shows you whether progress is happening or not. This is called an indicator (or a Progress Tracker) because it indicates whether progress is happening or not.
Here’s an example
Let’s imagine that your project goal project’s ambition is to decrease obesity by changing people’s eating habits.
Your 5 stages of progress might look like this:
ACTIVITY | ENGAGEMENT | POTENTIAL | BEHAVIOUR | SUCCESS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Provide Healthy Cooking Classes | Get attendances at your cooking classes | Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal | Increase the number of healthy meals a person has each week | Decrease an obese person’s weight |
On Makerble you can measure your progress at each of these 5 stages
Stage of progress | What it looks like | How you measure it |
|---|---|---|
ACTIVITY (activity output) | Provide Healthy Cooking Classes | Create an Activity Tracker called Healthy Cooking Classes Run |
ENGAGEMENT (participation output) | Get attendances at your cooking classes | Create an Engagement Tracker called Attendances |
POTENTIAL (short-term outcome) | Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal | Step 1. Create a Multiple Choice Tracker called “How would you rate your ability to cook a variety of meals that are healthy and tasty?” which has the Answer Choices
Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal” |
BEHAVIOUR (medium-term outcome) | Increase the number of healthy meals a person has each week | Step 1. Create a Numerical Tracker called “How many healthy meals did you cook last week?” Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Improve people’s knowledge of how to cook a healthy meal” |
SUCCESS (long-term outcome) | Decrease an obese person’s weight | Step 1. Create a Numerical Tracker called “What is your weight?” and assign the unit of Kilograms Step 2. Add your new Multiple Choice Tracker to a new outcome called “Decrease an obese person’s weight” |
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You can create these 5 stages of progress on Makerble and add them to your project
Then you can start measuring progress at each stage on your project
Measure Activity and Engagement by entering the number of Classes Provided and using the checkbox to record which participants attended the class that day
Measure Potential by entering the ability of each participant at the start of the project and then entering their ability at the end, so you can compare the two and see the difference over time.
Measure Behaviour
Measure Success
So because you have defined your outcomes as statements and then added Progress Trackers to them, you can now see the change that’s happened over time.
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