Parker Duignan Presentations
Forthcoming Training Workshops
Recent Presentations - Information for participants
Forthcoming
Training Workshops
Building
Better Intervention Logics, Faster - Level I
Paul Duignan - Wellington, 18
December 2008 (9am - 12.30pm)
Performance
management systems need intervention logics – we’ll show you how to
build them.
Join Dr Paul Duignan for a highly
focused workshop that will increase your skills and confidence in
developing and using intervention logics. At the end of the workshop,
attendees will have new techniques and tools to take back to their
workplace and apply immediately.
By the end of the workshop, participants will understand:
• Why you are drawing intervention logics (outcomes
models)
• How they fit at the centre of strategy, performance
management, evaluation and justifying what you do
• How they can be drawn to ensure they are the most
useful they can be
• How the 13 Tips to Better Intervention Logics can
be applied in practice to build great intervention logics – plus,
participants will start practicing doing this in the workshop.
All participants will receive their own copy of DoView software, the
easy efficient tool for building and sharing intervention logics (more
information from: www.DoView.com).
Dr Paul Duignan is a New Zealand based outcomes and evaluation expert
who consults nationally and internationally. Since reviewing all
the 2003 and 2004 NZ departmental Statements of Intent as outcomes
documentation for The Treasury, he has focused on working directly with
organisations to help them develop comprehensive, logical and easy to
manage outcomes management and performance measurement systems.
Paul is an entertaining and responsive presenter who will provide
thoughtful input into your agency's performance management and outcomes
work. More information about Paul and his highly effective
approach to managing outcomes is available from: www.parkerduignan.com
and www.easyoutcomes.org.
Examples
of models available from: www.outcomesmodels.org.
This workshop will be especially useful for those working with:
• outcomes
• monitoring and indicators
• project management
• performance management and reporting
• strategic planning
• evaluation
• contracting
• Statements of Intent
Thursday, 18 December, 9-12.30. Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street,
Wellington*.
To Register, please email us
Cost: $350+gst (Early-bird saver $250+gst - register by 9
December). * If
you register and can’t attend we
will welcome your replacement. Cancellation fees apply. (10% admin fee
for cancellations received by 9 December, thereafter 20%).
Building
Better Intervention Logics, Faster - Level II
Paul Duignan - Wellington, 18 December
2008 (1.30 - 5pm)
Performance
management systems need intervention logics – we’ll help take your
skills to the next level.
This Level II workshop will actively involve you in
building and improving your intervention logics. You will become better
and faster at drawing quality intervention logics (outcomes models,
program logics, ends-means diagrams). The workshop takes you beyond the
13 Tips for Better Intervention Logics, which are covered in the Level
I workshop.
By the end of the workshop, you will understand:
• The best ways to structure large intervention
logics
• How to avoid common problems with intervention
logics and performance management
• How to build an example of an intervention logic in
DoView outcomes and evaluation software (in small groups).
This workshop will be especially useful for those working with:
• outcomes
• monitoring and indicators
• project management
• performance management and reporting
• strategic planning
• evaluation
• contracting
• Statements of Intent
Dr Paul Duignan is a New Zealand based outcomes and evaluation expert
who consults nationally and internationally. Since reviewing all
the 2003 and 2004 NZ departmental Statements of Intent as outcomes
documentation for The Treasury, he has focused on working directly with
organisations to help them develop comprehensive, logical and easy to
manage outcomes management and performance measurement systems.
Paul is an entertaining and responsive presenter who will provide
thoughtful input into your agency's performance management and outcomes
work. More information about Paul and his highly effective
approach to managing outcomes is available from: www.parkerduignan.com
and www.easyoutcomes.org..
Examples of models available from: www.outcomesmodels.org.
** Participants will need to have some background knowledge of how and
why intervention logics are used – this course does not focus on the 13
Tips for Building Intervention Logics which are covered in the Building
Better Intervention Logics, Faster - Level I Workshop.
Thursday, 18 December, 9am-12.30pm. Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street,
Wellington .
To Register, please email us
Cost: $350+gst (Early-bird saver $250+gst - register by 9
December).* If you register and can’t attend we will welcome your
replacement. Cancellation fees apply. (10% admin fee for cancellations
received by 9 December, thereafter 20%).
Gearing
Up for Performance Management under the new government
Paul Duignan - Wellington, 16 December
2008 (8.30am - 1pm)
Treasury has just released a new paper on performance
management. It’s expected that the new government will put a huge focus
on having all government departments justify how they are spending
public money. Start upskilling now and be ready for 2009.
This workshop will help you:
1. Develop a concise framework for presenting and
justifying performance and spending
2. Know how to structure discussion about the
outcomes you are trying to achieve
3. Know where Value for Money exercises fit within
this framework
4. Avoid common pitfalls and confusion around
accountability and attribution of changes in outcomes to departmental
activity
5. Set up a robust system that you can use and build
on over time
Workshop Presenter Dr Paul Duignan is an expert in outcomes, public
sector performance management and evaluation. Examples of performance
management work he has been involved in were cited several times in the
recent Treasury paper on performance management. His thinking about
public sector performance management provides a coherent approach to an
area where there is considerable uncertainty and confusion. He has
worked on evaluation and outcomes for organisations ranging from the
IMF through to public sector agencies in most sectors in New Zealand.
He is an interesting and engaging presenter who will help you build
your skills to thrive in the new performance management environment.
Paul’s work can be found at www.outcomescentral.org. Information
on the workshop is available from www.parkerduignan.com and on the
approach from www.easyoutcomes.org.
This workshop will be especially useful for those working with:
• outcomes
•
monitoring and indicators
• project
management
•
performance management and
reporting
• strategic
planning
•
evaluation
•
contracting
•
Statements of Intent
Dr Paul Duignan is a New Zealand based outcomes and evaluation expert
who consults nationally and internationally on outcomes. He has
been involved in developing DoView as a new approach to drawing
outcomes models. More information about Paul and his highly effective
approach to managing outcomes is available from: www.parkerduignan.com
and www.easyoutcomes.org.
Tuesday, 16 December, 8.30am - 1pm. Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street,
Wellington.
To Register, please email us
Cost: $350+gst (Early-bird saver $250+gst - register by 9
December). *
If you register and can’t attend we
will welcome your replacement. Cancellation fees apply. (10% admin fee
for cancellations received by 9 December, thereafter 20%).
Recent Presentations - Information
for participants
Using a new tool for
logic
modelling:
DoView
Paul
Duignan - Forthcoming Presentation to the Australian
Evaluation Society Conference 9 September 2008. AEA conference website.
Now that building program logic models is standard practice
within
evaluation, new tools are needed which help evaluators build better
models,
document their models and share their models via the internet.
DoView is a new type of logic modelling software designed for
evaluators to
quickly draw and amend logics in real-time during evaluation
stakeholder
meetings. The software creates ‘models' of logics rather than just
creating
‘drawings' of them.
Participants will be shown how they can use this approach to
build,
structure and work with large and small logic models. Standards for
drawing
good program logic models will be discussed. The way these models can
be used
for providing a rich description of a program, for documenting a model,
and for
identifying which links are supported by evidence will be covered.
In addition, ways of using the models for planning and
implementing
evaluations as a ‘living evaluation plan' by inserting indicators and
evaluation questions onto the logics will be demonstrated. Lastly, ways
that
HTML versions of the models can be used to front-end web-based
evidence-based
practice evidential summaries will be demonstrated. The workshop will
use a
combination of presentation, general workshop discussion and some
smaller group
work.
You will learn:
- how to build logic models in
real-time in stakeholder meetings using the software;
- how to best structure large
(i.e. multi-diagram) logic models and document the evidence behind the
links in the model; and
- how to populate your model with
indicators, evaluation questions and evaluation projects to create a
‘living' implementation plan for your evaluation.
In preparation for the workshop
you could do the following:
1. Look at the guidelines for drawing quality outcomes
models at www.easyoutcomes.org/guidelines/outcomesguidelines.html
2. Look at examples of outcomes models at www.outcomesmodels.org and
of a web
page model produced by DoView version 1.14,
and example of using an outcomes
model for evidence-based practice and of a visual
evaluation plan.
3. Download a trial copy of DoView from (currently only a PC version
available) www.doview.com/download.html
4. Read more about how outcomes models once they have been prepared
according to the guidelines can be used for a range of purposes at the
Easy Outcomes web site and in the Easy Outcomes Workbook (PDF) which
you can find at www.easyoutcomes.org/resources.html.
Set your
outcomes models free! Abandoning the traditional constraints on
outcomes models.
Paul Duignan - Forthcoming
Presentation to Waikato Bay of Plenty ANZEA
Workshop September 2008.
Many outcomes models (intervention logics, programme logics, results
chains, programme theories etc.) are drawn with sets of archaic and
unquestioned constraints. Examples are the requirement that the drawn
model should only contain outcomes attributable to the particular
programme being evaluated (that is, able to be proved caused by the
programme), or that there should be a limited number of levels (often
just three - outputs, intermediate outcomes, final outcomes). All this
has given outcomes models a bad name as partial and arbitrary set of
elements selected only because they are measurable and
attributable.
Those evaluators coming from a systems perspective rightly criticise
such models for providing a hopelessly impoverished picture of the
complexity of programmes we are evaluating in the real world.
Abandoning such constraints and drawing outcomes models which visualise
the fullest possible representations of “cascading sets of causes in
the real world” is a liberating experience. The issues of attribution
and what are, or are not, outputs, are dealt with – but after the full
model has been drawn. This workshop will explore the art of drawing
comprehensive outcomes models free from the arbitrary constraints of
the past. It will use outcomes visualisation software, DoView,
developed by Paul Duignan for the purpose of drawing and managing the
associated data from larger multi-diagram outcomes models. More
information at www.doview.com, www.easyoutcomes.org and
www.outcomesblog.org. .
In preparation for the workshop
you could do the following:
1. Look at the guidelines for drawing quality outcomes
models at www.easyoutcomes.org/guidelines/outcomesguidelines.html
2. Look at examples of outcomes models at www.outcomesmodels.org and
of a web
page model produced by DoView version 1.14,
and example of using an outcomes
model for evidence-based practice and of a visual
evaluation plan.
3. Download a trial copy of DoView from (currently only a PC version
available) www.doview.com/download.html
4. Read more about how outcomes models once they have been prepared
according to the guidelines can be used for a range of purposes at the
Easy Outcomes web site and in the Easy Outcomes Workbook (PDF) which
you can find at www.easyoutcomes.org/resources.html.
A Sample of Past
Presentations
Duignan, P. (2007). The Challenge: Fixing What's Wrong with Evaluation
in New Zealand. ANZEA Evaluation Conference. Masterton. 9 July
2007.
Duignan, P. (2007). Setting your outcomes models free. Workshop at
ANZEA Evaluation Conference. Masterton. 9 July 2007.
Duignan, P. (2007). Visualising Outcomes in Social Policy:
Constructing Quality Outcome Sets for Maximising Impact. Social Policy,
Research & Evaluation Conference. Wellington. 5 April 2007.
Duignan, P. (2006). Outcomes Workshop Series (series of four workshops
). Wellington, July-November 2006.
Duignan, P. (2006). Outcomes and Indicator Phobia: Causes and
Treatment. Victoria University School of Government Seminar
Series. Wellington. 27 October 2006
Duignan, P. (2006). Getting evidence into policy: The needs of policy
makers and Governments for new approaches to evidence synthesis.
Cochrane Qualitative Research Methods Group Regional Symposium.
Adelaide. 10-11 July 2006.
Duignan, P. (2005). Evaluating
Health Promotion Today -
Context, Trade-offs, Being Strategic, REMLogic. Keynote
presentation to
the Ministry of Health Public Health Intelligence Analytical Workshop,
Wellington, 17
October 2005.
McKegg, K. & Duignan, P. (2004). Making What Works Work - An
Evaluators Perspective. Presentation to the Social
Policy Research and Evaluation Conference 2004 What Works?,
Wellington, 25-26 November 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Outline
of the Strategic Evaluation Approach. Presentation to the
Annual
Conference of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 3-6 November
2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Outcomes
Theory:
Using it to Improve Programme/Organisation/Sector Outcome Sets. Professional
Development
Workshop for the Annual
Conference of the American
Evaluation Association, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 3
November 2004. [Background reading for this workshop was
document
#122pdf].
Duignan, P. (2004). Strategic
Evaluation Manifesto. Presentation
to 6th
European
Evaluation
Society Biennial
Conference: Governance, Democracy and Evaluation.
Berlin, Germany. 30 September –
2 October 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Outcomes
Theory:
Improving Your Sector/Programme/Organisation Outcome Sets.
Pre-Conference
Professional Development Workshop at 6th
European Evaluation
Society
Biennial Conference: Governance, Democracy and Evaluation.
Berlin, Germany. 30 September
2004. [Background reading for this workshop was document #122pdf].
Duignan, P. (2004). Lifting your Evaluation Game as an
Independent
Professional Evaluator. Workshop for Auckland Evaluation Group,
Auckland, 28 May 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Advocacy Workshop. National Hearth
Foundation of New Zealand, Christchurch, 22 May 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Advocacy Workshop. National
Hearth
Foundation of New Zealand, Wellington, 8 May 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Developing a Performance Measurement
Framework to
Appraise Policy Development. Presentation to the 2nd Annual
Developing Outcomes Orientated Welfare and Social Policy Conference,
Wellington, 11-12 May 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Evaluating the Effectiveness of
Inter-Sectoral
Initiatives. Presentation to the 2nd Annual Developing
Outcomes Orientated Welfare and Social Policy Conference, Wellington,
11-12 May 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Outcomes Theory: Clarifying What’s Realistic
in
Managing for Outcomes. Presentation to the 2nd Annual Developing,
Managing and Measuring Outcomes-Based Policy in the Public Sector,
Wellington, 31 March – 1 April 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Achieving an Outcomes-Based Organisational
Strategy
in Health. Presentation to the 5th Healthcare Management
Conference, Auckland, 17-18 March 2004.
Duignan, P. (2004). Measuring and Managing Health Outcomes:
Understanding the Influences Driving Outcomes and Linking Agency
Activities to Consequences. Presentation to the 3rd Annual
Outcomes in Health Conference, Auckland, 16-17 March 2004.
Duignan, P. & M. Archer (2003). Assessing and
Assisting: Lessons for Central Agencies from Ministry for Culture and
Heritage (MCH) Outcome Set Development. Presentation to Managing
for Outcomes: A Workshop for Government Central Agencies, Wellington, 1
October, 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Community Project Indicators Framework
(CPIF). Presentation to the Australasian Evaluation Society
Conference, Auckland, 14-18 September 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Renewed Outcomes Focus: What it Means for
Evaluators. Presentation to the Australasian Evaluation Society
Conference, Auckland, 14-18 September 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Strategic Evaluation Workshop: Overview and
Identifying Evaluation Needs. Te Puni Kokiri/ Ministry of Maori
Development, Wellington, 5 August 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Public Health Medicine Registrar Evaluation
Workshop, Auckland, 19 August 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Outcomes and the New Zealand Safety Authority
(NZFSA). Presentation to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority
Executive Management Team, Wellington, 13 August 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Evaluating Inter-Sectoral Outcomes and Targets to
Assess Progress in the Achievement of Social Goals. Presentation
to the Developing Outcomes Orientated Welfare and Social Policy
Conference, Wellington, 29-30 July 2003.
Duignan, P. & A. Greenaway (2003). Case Study: Centre for
Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation/Whariki – A
Participatory Approach to Project Evaluation. Presentation to the
Effective and Robust Strategies for Allocating Managing and Monitoring
Government Funding Conference, Wellington, 24-25 June 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). New Zealand Customs Service Strategic
Evaluation Workshop. Wellington, 24 June 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). So We All Have Our Statements of Intent
(SOIs) – What Next? Presentation to the Implementing and
Evaluating Outcomes-Based Government Policy Conference, Wellington,
26-27 May 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Using Data for Performance Management:
Principles for Building Sector Performance Management Systems.
Presentation to the Managing Health Information: A Major Theme for
Health Reform Conference, Sydney, 7-8 May 2003.
Duignan, P. & B. Borell (2003). Building Evaluation Capacity
– The Key to Translating Social Policy Research Theory Into Practice.
Presentation to the Connecting Policy Research and Practice Conference,
Wellington, 29-30 April 2003.
Duignan, P., Searle, P. & E. Bridge (2003). The Draft
Outcomes Evaluation and Performance Measurement Framework: Measuring
Government Agency Activity, Policies and Programmes for Maori.
Presentation to the Connecting Policy Research and Practice Conference,
Wellington, 29-30 April 2003.
Duignan, P. (2003). Implementing an Outcomes-Based Health
Strategy and Evaluation Framework Within Your Organisation, 2nd Annual
Measuring, Monitoring and Managing Outcomes in Health Conference, 17-18
March 2003 (Also Chair first day).
Duignan, P. (2002). The Outcomes Approach. Series of four
workshops to the New Zealand Defence Forces, Wellington, December
2002-January 2003.
Duignan, P. (2002). Importance of Policy Evaluation and its Influence
on Achieving Agency Outcomes. Presentation to Managing and
Measuring Outcomes Based Policy in the Public Sector Conference,
Wellington, 30 September-1 October 2002.
Duignan, P. (2002). Being Strategic About Strategic Planning in
the Public Sector. Presentation to the Strategic Planning in the
Public Sector Conference, Wellington, 23-24 July 2002.
Duignan, P. et al. (2002). Evaluation Short Course.
APHRU/Whariki, University of Auckland. Presenter of a number of
workshop sessions in this course, Auckland, 20-24 May 2002.
Duignan, P. (2002). Renewed Outcomes Focus: What it Means for
Evaluators. Presentation to the Auckland Evaluation Group,
Auckland, 8 May 2002.
Duignan, P., Casswell, S., Howden-Chapman, P., Moewaka-Barnes, H.,
Allan, B., & K. Conway (2002). Community Project Indicators
Framework (CPIF). Presentation to the Making the Connections,
Health Promotion Conference, Christchurch, 11 April 2002.
Duignan, P. (2001). Mainstreaming Evaluation or Building
Evaluation Capability? Three Key Elements. Paper to the
16th American Evaluation Association Conference, St Louis, 7-10
November 2001. (Paper circulated to the conference but conference
not attended due to September 11).
Duignan, P. (2001). Upping the Evaluation Debate: What We Need to Do
Next. Presentation to the Measuring Public Sector Performance
Conference, Wellington, 16-17 October 2001.
Duignan, P. (2001). Strategic Evaluation. Presentation to Health
Research Methods Advisory Service Workshop on Evaluation, Wellington
5-6 September 2001.
Duignan, P. (2001) Evaluation Approaches Workshop. Workshop for
Educational Review Authority (ERA), Dunedin, 23 April 2001.
Duignan, P. & Parker, J. (2001) Being
Strategic About Stakeholder Dialogue: Current Issues in Community
Consultation.
Presentation to the 7th National Conference of the New Zealand
Organisational Development Network, Wellington, 15 March 2002.
Duignan, P. (2000). Evaluation Workshop. Workshop for Crown
Forestry Rental Trust, Wellington, 23 November 2000.
Duignan, P. (2000). How to make sense of qualitative
evidence. Workshop as part of the Evidence for Action Conference,
Auckland, 2 November 2000.
Duignan, P. (2000). Improving the Cost Effectiveness and Capacity
for Evaluation in the Public Sector. Presentation to the
Improving Public Sector Performance Through Quality Evaluation
Conference, Wellington, 25-26 May 2000.
Duignan, P. (1999). Developing a culture of strategic evaluation in the
public sector. Improving Public Sector Policy Through Quality
Evaluation Conference. Wellington, New Zealand , 25-28 May 1999.
Duignan, P. (1999). World Wide Web Networking Project.
Presentation to the Health Promotion Forum Conference, 19-21 October
1999.
Duignan, P. (1999). Strategic Issues in Public Health World Wide Web
Networking. Presentation to the Public Health Association
Conference, 12 July 1999.
Duignan, P. (1999). A Strategic Approach to Social Programme
Evaluation Workshop. Wellington, 28 May 1999.
Duignan, P. (1999). Evaluation Frameworks Workshop.
National Heart Foundation, Auckland, 18 May 1999.
Duignan, P. (1999). Reporting and Evaluation for Community Liaison
Social Worker Workshop. Children, Young Persons and Their
Families Agency, Wellington, 28 April 1999.
Duignan, P. (1998). Evaluation and Programme Planning Workshop,
Southern Public Health, Invercargill, 2 3-24 November 1998.
Duignan, P. (1998). Evaluating Public, Social and Community Programmes:
From Outputs to Outcomes to Capacity Building. Presentation to
public sector policy analysts and managers, Wellington, 13 November
1998.
Duignan, P. et al. (1998). Evaluation Methodology Short Course
HFA/APHRU, Christchurch, 5-9 October 1998. (presenter at number of
sessions).
Duignan, P. (1998). The Internet and Public Health: The Parson’s Egg.
Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Wellington, 2
September 1998.
Duignan, P. (1998). Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities Lobby and
Strategic Positioning Workshop Session, Health Promotion Forum,
Wellington, 20 March 1998
Duignan, P. (1997). Evaluation Short Course HRC/APHRU, Writing research
grants, 11 July 1997 (presenter one day).
Duignan P. & Porrit, B. (1997). Decision analysis and Proiect
Planning, New Zealand Planning Institute, Palmerston North, 16 April
1997.
Duignan, P. (1997). Using the Internet/World Wide Web to Your
Advantage: A Strategic Rather Than Technical Approach, Institute of
Directors, Wellington, March 1997.
Duignan, P. et. Al. (1996). Evaluation Methodology Workshop, Health
Research Council, Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit, Auckland, 12
July 1996 (Presenter for number of sessions).
Duignan, P. et al. (1995). Evaluation, and Planning for Health
Promotion: Level II, Napier, 2-3 October 1995.
Duignan, P. et. Al. (1995). Evaluation and Planning for Health
Promotion: Level II, Rotorua, 16-17 October 1995.
Duignan, P. (1995). Evaluation and Planning for Health Promotion: A
practical, skills development workshop for health promotion workers.
Whangarei, 24-25 July 1995.
Duignan, P., M. Dehar, et al. (1992). Planning evaluation of health
promotion programmes: A framework for decision making. Auckland,
Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit, School of Medicine, University
of Auckland.
Casswell, S. and P. Duignan (1989). Evaluating health promotion: A
guide for health promoters and health managers. Auckland, Department of
Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Auckland.
For evaluation articles see
Strategic Evaluation website resources
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