Are you grappling with how you can embed a test and learn approach to your work? Is it challenging to know where to begin or what you need to put in place?
At Collaborate CIC we’re experts in supporting people, teams, organisations and places to develop their own test and learn approaches, we understand the different components needed to build a successful learning culture that enables iterative working.
We’ve broken what you need to know into four key areas that make up the ‘hallmarks’ of a strong approach.
Our series of FREE interactive sessions, running throughout October and November, will take you through them.
We’ll demonstrate how we can support you to develop the collective and iterative approaches that are needed to solve the complex challenges you’re facing.
Each session is standalone, so attendance at the previous sessions isn’t a pre-requisite, and all sessions will be recorded for you to review or share later.
Session 1 : Bringing coherence to complexity
9 October
Traditional models of change struggle to describe the complexity we see in our work every day. We need new models to help us make sense of the system around us.
In this session, we’ll cover why developing models of change can be helpful and share a selection of the ones we’ve developed, how we developed them and how they worked in practice.
Session 2: Building the infrastructure
16 October
It can be easy to want to jump straight into learning, but it’s important to think about what infrastructure you need in place before starting.
In this session, we’ll share examples of different learning infrastructure and provide insight on how you can design and develop your own approaches.
Session 3: Gathering the right data
20 November
There is often a tendency to focus on demonstrating impact and evidencing value for money when collecting data. While crucially important, this kind of data doesn’t tell us much about why something worked, or how we developed ways of working to achieve our successes. You can end up reducing the vast complexity of people’s experience to single numerical values.
In this session, we’ll discuss the value in designing data collection methods that are rooted in the experiences of those closest to the work.
Session 4: Learning to action
27 November
Often, the most challenging part of learning is knowing how to take action. Learning is an active process and how you come together with others and the type of spaces that are created for learning are critical to joint learning.
In this session, we’ll explore how you setup an effective learning space, what considerations you need to take into account and how to manage these spaces effectively.