New Senior Corps Directors Training

Members of the New Director Senior Corps Learning Communities have an opportunity to attend an on-site workshop in San Francisco, California on June 22, 2009 from 8:30-10:00 am:
101 Basic Performance Measurements (RSVP, FGP &SCP)

In order to get as much out of the workshop experience as possible, all participants are asked to complete the following assignment. We anticipate the three tasks in Part 1 will take up to 2 hours.

Part 1. Homework (complete by June 21, 2009)

1. Download and review the Senior Corps Performance Measurement Toolkit (45-50 minutes)

This toolkit describes:
• Performance measurement requirements and criteria for selecting work plans.
• The components of the PFI approach—including community need, service activities, inputs, anticipated accomplishments (outputs), and anticipated impacts (outcomes).
• What to consider when choosing instruments and identifying data collection strategies.
• How to complete a performance measurement work plan.


2. Watch the Introduction to Performance Measurement tutorial.



 

Download the video:
Introduction to Performance Measurement tutorial (MP4 - 20 minutes)

The topics covered in this tutorial include:
• Definition and uses of performance measurement
• Requirements and work plan overview
• Definition of results: output, intermediate outcome, end outcome
• Examples of results for RSVP, FGP, and SCP
• Additional resources


3. Review the Performance Measurement Builder (10 minutes)
   The "PM Builder" is an online, interactive tool to develop performance measures by choosing from a series of drop-down menus. You can create a PM Plan, save the Word document to your computer, and customize it for your particular program activities. Take 10 minutes and see if you can build a PM Plan for one of your activities.

Part 2 On-site Workshop (June 22, 2009)
101 Basic Performance Measurements (RSVP, FGP & SCP)

This session is designed to give new project staff an overview of performance measurement, including its requirements, basic terminology, and definitions of outputs and outcomes. Topics will include:

• Review of the "homework" (Toolkit, tutorial, PM Builder) and entertain questions
• Review basic performance measurement (PM) concepts and benefits
• Clarify PM terminology of the work plan using a logic model
• Review key elements for PM work plans (indicator, target, how measured)
• Understand how to access helpful PM resources
• Review new tool: PM Builder