Attributing your impact to any particular organisation or program can be quite difficult. A lot of people make changes after two EAGx attendances, a handful of local group interactions, building in-depth connections with certain people, etc.
But as a community builder trying to evaluate the impact of our programs, it would be really useful if someone reached out and said: “Hey, I think the 30-minute chat we had last year was maybe 5% influential in getting me to my current position, alongside X, Y, and Z other programs and influences.” 5% influence for a 30-minute chat is a useful signal for us when evaluating a 1:1 program! But people are unlikely to share that, because there’s usually a more substantial mentor or program that felt much more influential.
So beyond proactively telling people when they’ve changed your actions, it seems good to me if there was a norm of proactively sharing when something influenced you even a bit.
Attributing your impact to any particular organisation or program can be quite difficult. A lot of people make changes after two EAGx attendances, a handful of local group interactions, building in-depth connections with certain people, etc.
But as a community builder trying to evaluate the impact of our programs, it would be really useful if someone reached out and said: “Hey, I think the 30-minute chat we had last year was maybe 5% influential in getting me to my current position, alongside X, Y, and Z other programs and influences.” 5% influence for a 30-minute chat is a useful signal for us when evaluating a 1:1 program! But people are unlikely to share that, because there’s usually a more substantial mentor or program that felt much more influential.
So beyond proactively telling people when they’ve changed your actions, it seems good to me if there was a norm of proactively sharing when something influenced you even a bit.
Strong agree! My working title for this was “Tell people/orgs when they influence your impact” but that didn’t scan as well.