Let’s reimagine work together - here’s how we began.
Allie and Amanda met at UNCA where they worked together in the Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning office (I know, quite a mouthful). Together, their work was to collect, analyze, and share data that helped individuals, departments, and the institution think about how to best support students in their learning. What we learned was the perspectives and experiences that our colleagues brought with them in this work matter almost more than the data itself when it came to accomplishing the ultimate goal - support students in their learning. and post-graduate success.
Without knowing it context matters was born in the long conversations Allie and Amanda had about what they heard when working with conversations and about how their own experiences (at home, with family, at work, being burnt-out, the list could go on) came into play in the work that they did.
The people of context matters
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amanda
When I was a toddler, apparently I would always ask my parents for “something better.”
I went back to school to learn the language of organizations with the hope of making them better for more people.
So I learned about policy (rules that we follow), implementation (how we turn ideas into action), and research (how we figure out what might work differently)
I started really digging into myself and looking hard at my impact in the world about 3 years ago.
I’ve been helping organizations improve for 10 years.
I’ve been researching perception (how we interpret the world) for 20 years.
If we want work to feel satisfying, we need to let go of the idea that we need to find an answer to x, or y problem first (that comes eventually, I promise)
I am a bright person who loves possibilities.
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Allie