Hi everyone
There are some excellent ideas coming out of this committee and I certainly don't want you to lose sight of them.
However, from this subcommittee I need an O&E strategy and a Capacity Building strategy so that they can be endorsed by the ALAC ideally before we get to Kobe. While both may have communication and metrics components, the strategies are to give the working groups some direction for the future. Mention of communication and metrics need only be with regards to assisting the direction of the strategy which should be high level and not require and specific details.
Detailed communication and metrics guidelines will be produced once we get other priorities out of the way- and they are already included in our Review Implementation Plan. I also believe that we are going to have someone from Comms attending the next ARIWG meeting - you are all welcome to attend.
The guidelines will be provided to help working groups to develop their own metrics based on what projects they are currently undertaking and what outcomes they want to result from those activities - with indicators to demonstrate that the outcome has been achieved. This will provide meaningful information for your report to outsiders about what has taken place and how you know that you achieved what you set out to do.
The ATLASIII Leadership team is currently doing just that in identifying the criteria to be used to choose our ATLAS travellers with indicators that must demonstrate that they meet the criteria. I cannot see the point in a metrics group actually creating metrics for a strategy or project that they don't own. Their role will be to set the guidelines and to provide advice if asked to ensure that the measures used are appropriate.
So if the O&E group can work and agree on the two strategies we need before Kobe for endorsement by the ALAC, then we can move on to deciding what the two groups will do and what communication approaches and measures will be needed to demonstrate that their project objectives have been achieved.
Thank you so much for your commitment and your passion - two important leadership characteristics :)
Maureen
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