Tags: Group Think, Test, Monitor, Diagnose; Threat Vs Safety; Ecological Decision making; Generalist Expert; Planning Fallacy; Fact Over Fiction; Affect Vs Effect
All that we see is all that there is…
Does our data support evidence based practice and does it support future decision making or forecasting?
Could it be that the data we collect is shaped to fit within the context that we work and by doing this do we unwittingly preferentially frame our performance problems through a significantly filtered lens?
If we consider the huge depth of possible data that could be collected and how this could then be interpreted does this create opportunities to challenge our training paradigms, beliefs, systems, processes and solutions?
Funnelling our narratives and the subsequent interventions through key data sets will surely fail to show the big picture and fail tell the whole story. Worryingly it may also encourage ‘selective’ story telling rather than giving a comprehensive objective review.
- How confident are you in the data you collect?
- How sure are you that the data you collect is the right data?
- How does the data that you collect inform what you do?
- How does the data that you collect enable you to review what you did – is it important?
- Do you understand how the data is derived that you capture?
- Are you confident that the data you analyse is relevant to your objective?
- Do you look at your your data in isolation OR as part of a larger cross departmental picture?