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You will be familiar with one of the famous
NCD images: the cutaway photograph of the grass with its shoots and roots.
It speaks of the need to see each church as a living organism and the need
to look beneath the surface at root causes of health issues if they are to
be addressed effectively. Profile Plus is a new comprehensive biotic tool
for exploring and analyzing the root causes of NCD Survey results.
It is a joint development project between
the Institute for NCD International and the NCD National Partner in
Australia.
The compact graphical layout of Profile Plus
encourages users to view the detailed results in a dynamic and holistic
way. It offers many significant benefits, including:
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helping identify the root causes of the minimum factor.
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identifying unique health issues by encouraging users to
explore combinations of results.
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highlighting strengths, making it easier to apply areas of
relatively greater health to those less healthy.
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identifying long term trends (or lack of progress) by including
up to four sets of NCD results in the one report. Such trends are often
not evident in just one set of results.
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giving church leaders greater confidence in deciding what
action to take in response to their NCD results, while offering
comprehensive analysis of what resulted from that action when the next
Survey is taken.
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generating momentum and encouraging churches to see NCD as a
long term process of continuous improvement.
Extensive work has been put into the design of Profile Plus to
make it easy to use. An explanation of how to read the graphs to best
effect has been included. The best way to learn about Profile Plus is to
start using it.
This is a significant resource for churches at all stages of
growth in health. For churches less healthy it will reveal two or three
major issues that will need significant attention and resourcing. For
churches that are very healthy it gives the detail necessary for making
those small yet significant adjustments to achieve that next level of
health.
Profile Plus is produced by the Institute for NCD International,
but you must order it through your NCD National Partner. You do not need
to wait until your next Survey to get a Profile Plus report; you can order
a report for surveys already completed (if your latest survey was done in
2004). Profile Plus will be released in September/October 2004. Ian Campbell is NCD National Partner for
Australia and co-author of Profile Plus |
