Propagating the new work disability paradigm for disability benefits & workers' comp systems
Questions For Potential Summit Planners
The purpose of these questions is to help you decide whether it makes sense for you to get involved in planning a Stakeholder Summit on Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed.
- Clarifying your own goals
- Getting everyone on the same page
- Maximizing return on investment (dollars and effort)
- Making the Summit a reality
- After the Summit?
Clarifying your own goals:
- What is going on in the state or your organization that makes holding a Summit NOW a good idea?
- What will a successful Summit look like?
- From your organization's point of view?
- From a statewide perspective?
- What benefits will accrue to you personally and to your organization from participating?
- How will a Summit support the broader performance improvement initiatives underway in your own organization, your communities, and / or the whole state?
Getting everyone on the same page:
- What do you want the people who participate in this Summit to do differently afterwards, specifically?
- What immediate outcomes and/or long term results do you want to produce?
- Let's say you look back a year or two after the Summit was held, and say it was a slam-bang success, a real milestone. What evidence will you be looking at?
Maximizing return on investment (dollars and effort):
- What will make this Summit have the greatest positive impact?
- What must your group's leadership / management do to assure its success?
- What risks will you run?
- What will maximize the likelihood of failure, humiliation, or lack of impact?
Making the Summit a reality:
- What group should plan the Summit? A single organization, an ad hoc coalition, or what
- Who can actually do the work (has the time, knows how to do it)?
- Which people and organizations, specifically, should attend the Summit?
After the Summit?
- What must happen after the summit to transform your new agreements into realities?
- What mechanism will permit on-going dialogue? Who will do that?
- Who will be involved in actually making the changes happen?