Progress Report II

I just shipped "Progress Report II" off to Eric. What a relief!

Just one more progress report for this baby and I'm home free.

Oh, Ho, Ho, It's Magic

Sometime between 2 and 3 a.m. I had an idea for the evaluation of the project.

It occurred to me that if one believes in the social constructionist model, the measure of success is participation. That's it. Simply by participating in the project, the interviewers and interviewees are reaping the benefits of learning and changing. The principle of simultanaeity!

I wonder if Eric is a social constructionist.

And the Operator Says 30 Cents More . . .

As I reread an earlier post, I realized that I could be making a huge mistake with Rosie by not approaching her first and bringing her up to speed. Leah said she would call her, which is preferable if you accept Harlow's client triangle model. However, Leah is so distracted by other things that I'm not sure if or when she will contact Rosie.

Conclusion: Better to contact Rosie first myself, before I send out more stuff directly to the rest of the board. I should also meet Rosie in person - better try to set up a face-to-face with her this week.

Questions to be Answered This Weekend

4. Describe the goals of your intervention, both for your clients as individuals and for the organization? What do you hope to accomplish? How did you reach this conclusion (aspirations versus client readiness versus prevailing conditions, resources, etc.?

5. Describe the method(s)/process(es) you will use to intervene. What are the major steps you plan to take? Whom will you involve and when and how? What makes you think that this approach fits this organization's needs better than any other at this time? What evidence is there in what you have read to support this approach?

6. What are your hunches about what will learn and what kinds of results you think are achievable. For example, if you are doing an interview feedback program, what are your first guesses based on your initial conversations with your clients thus far, about the kinds of themes that will surface in the data. What major difficulties, if any, do you anticipate? How might you deal with them were they to arise?

7. What is the contract you have with your client regarding the intervention? Specifically, what role do you expect your client to play? What resources are you asking for? What can you offer in return? What risks are involved for you or your client and how will you manage them?

8. How will you evaluate your success? From whom will you obtain feedback? How will you measure your impact on the client system? How will you measure progress along the way? How will you know when it is time to change your strategy or abandon the effort altogether?

9. What are your personal learning goals for this project? How will you know if you have achieved them?

All By Myself

Leah has been assigned to a long-term project in Asia - she's leaving for Hong Kong April 2. She has turned over responsibilities for the Cultural Exchange to Rosie, whom I have not met.

Leah gave me the green light to proceed with the project without her, so I'm going to do just that.

Now I need a plan. I arranged a tentative call with Cheryl last night to strategize, but we didn't connect (my bad). I hope she's available this weekend to consult!

Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money

Late yesterday Leah accepted an invitation to meet today. I'm driving over to Polaris in about an hour.

I need to reread the syllabus again. Maybe all of this has some bearing on my paper . . .

Big Gulp

Last week we clinicked (i'm verbing a noun here) around my project in Harlow's class. Essentially, my peers told me to get a face-to-face meeting with Leah immediately.

So, I wrote to Leah early yesterday asking for a face-to-face meeting Thursday at her convenience (her time, her location, etc.). She has not responded. She appears active on Sametime, so I think she's around.

I have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach about the prospects for this project completing. What will I do if she cans it?

Slow Burn

I'm sitting on a bridge line waiting for Leah to show up. It's seven minutes past the hour. I changed the time of the meeting to accept her "counter" in Lotus Notes, and still yet I'm left holding the bag.

Ah, here we go. The conference call service apparently just cut me off the line since no one else is on the call. Lovely.

You Can't Always Get What You Want

It took all day, but I came up with a draft of the interview protocol for the Cultural Exchange yesterday. Pam took a look at it and gave me a couple comments, and I forwarded it to Leah for her review.

Leah wrote me at 5:45 a.m. today to thank me for keeping her informed. She makes no mention of when or whether she plans to review the protocol.

I am dreading the IFP review scheduled during next week's residency. Everyone else will have finished, and I'm still . . . God, I don't know what I'm still doing. Slogging along, I guess. I hate this project.