Leadership Overview

Your Network's Current Stage

Learning

• Know data is important, curious to learn about its potential uses and benefits.
• Leadership occasionally ask questions about the data they are given but are not entirely convinced about its value.
• Data is an interest of the organisation but not a priority.
• There is a business plan with some defined and measurable goals, though data collection/analysis may not align.
• Learning about impact e.g. exploring theory of change.
• Learning through experience, building ‘adequate’ skills.
• Assessing data and analytics skills, knowledge, and roles across the organisation.
• Might use past and current data for decision making with some simple trend analysis.
• Invest small amounts in some basic/existing tools and staff training on an ad hoc basis.
• Exploring ideas and needs for the future and actively creating a plan for improving with data.

The next stage up for your network is

Developing

• Becoming engaged, supportive, ask the right questions of the data, and active in harnessing its value.
• Data and analytics is becoming more of a priority for the organisation as a whole (and considerably so in some projects/teams).
• Data is becoming aligned to overarching business plan and desired impact.
• Monitors what’s happening in the present as well as past trends. Some exploratory forward-looking research and predictions.
• Data champion within senior management.
• Addressing skills gap in leadership as a whole including understanding around impact measurement and management.
• Actively implementing organisation-wide plans for improvement in data.
• Beginning to commit significant investment in people (job roles), skills, learning, and tools.