Content
Discussion
Winnable
Action Steps
Having mapped
your ideal and current practice, identified potential changes, and
thought about supports and barriers, you can now proceed to select
a few action steps that you consider are most winnable.
Using Table 8.5, column 2, identify several concrete actions that
you can take to advance your practice. These actions will build
on supports, reduce barriers, or both.
Typically, we
are much better at generating long lists of potential actions than
we are on following through.
So as a second step using Table 8.5, it is best to cut the list
down to those that are most winnable.
Using the diagram
in Figure 8.3, think about moving forward on these steps when you:
 should
(because there is a need) (blue circle)
would (because it
is within your mandate) (red circle) and
could (because you
have the capacity and resources to do it) (yellow).
The white area
in the diagram represents the best fit among the three domains that
influence success - all three are necessary.
But often all
three are not strong. Think of circumstances where there is a crying
need and a mandate, but inadequate resources (purple), where you
invest resources within your mandate but there is no need and no
response (orange), or areas where something is needed and you can
do it, but you are not mandated/permitted to do it (green). In my
experience, many health promoters are in The Green Zone with respect
to some approaches such as advocacy, and in the Orange Zone when
addressing broad determinants of health.
Put a check mark in the third column (titled "Priority")
for the proposed action steps you think are most winnable - in other
words, the best fit among the three elements.
After identifying
action steps, winnowing them down, you may then complete columns
3 and 4, noting resources and timelines. Without the resources and
a deadline, they are not really a plan, but simply a wish list.
But having made the commitment of resources and deadline, they are
important "now what's"
|
