Measurement
The overall goal of social impact is to put people in the best position to fulfill their potential and achieve wellbeing.
We provide our clients with insights to prove a service or initiative is effective at meeting the needs of the people they seek to help. Measuring wellbeing can help to maximise social impact by directing resources to the most effective use.
We work together to improve impact by identifying where to best focus delivery, resources, innovation and collaboration.
We help our clients understand their priority needs and the efficacy of their current wellbeing strategy including measurement of implemented initiatives in their organisation.
We help businesses move from survival mode through to stability and from there, we move towards growth and sustainability.
Why do clients need to measure social impact?
- Care is the life-giving force that sustains health and wellbeing, binding together societies and ecologies. But everyday forms of care, though essential are systematically undervalued.
- The professional service business models have been geared toward output relying on GDP as the core metric of growth and success.
- GDP is not a comprehensive measure of success. It does not measure important components of wellbeing such as health, education, equality of opportunity and social relationships.
- Focusing on outputs rather that outcomes has resulting in greater mental health concerns, lack of work-life balance, toxic cultures, and retention issues.
In an economy that treats gross domestic product as the ultimate end, people and the planet are mere means, and much of the work that sustains society is ignored entirely. This status quo is not only pathological, unsustainable, and bad for our health, it is also entirely unnecessary.
Mariana Mazzucato
Benefits of measuring the social impact
- A focus on wellbeing can build currency for more equitable indicators of progress, drive changes in actions, policies, and practices in your organisation.
- Measuring the impact in terms of wellbeing will identify the priority needs in your organisation and highlight the efficacy of current wellbeing initiatives and strategy in your workplace.
- Establishing wellbeing as the goal and measure of what matters will help to create a future in which people, communities, and the planet can all thrive. This provides a new compass for decision-making, resource allocation, social narrative, and consciousness.
Wellceum consults through Huber Social to measure social impact of interventions, programs and strategy through a data-driven approach to provide a roadmap of the needs of the people served.
We have been developing the tools to help us drive better. It is time to use them.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
About Huber Social
Using a standardised process, we establish a measurement system, collect data from the people directly impacted and employ statistical analysis to identify a shift in Wellbeing and the relative weighted needs of people to maximise this.
What is measured is treasured
The Huber Social Impact Measurement achieves the following:
- Measures Progress Overall: By measuring overall wellbeing, we can account for the positive and negative changes occurring. Identifying the contribution of the program and the specific outcomes achieved.
- Comparable: The ability to compare across programs/products fairly so resources can be adequately directed to have the greatest impact.
- Actionable – Provides data driven insights of the needs of the people impacted to inform decision making across program/product design, deliver and ongoing performance.
- Independence – Independent third party assessment of your social impact that can be audited against a standard. Providing at least the same level of integrity as trusted financial assessments.
The Huber Social Wellbeing Measurement Framework
The Huber Social Wellbeing Measurement Framework recognises that the overall goal of social impact is to put people in the best position to fulfil their potential and achieve Wellbeing.
To measure the effectiveness of a social intervention, Huber Social measures shifts in wellbeing as well as shifts in capability and opportunity needs of people to inform how the impact may be improved.
The social value of the intervention is then calculated using the Huber Social Value Metric as to the product of the impact achieved, the relative need of the intervention and the reach of the intervention in terms of the number of people impacted.
For more information on the Huber Social Wellbeing Measurement Framework contact desi@wellceum.com.au or