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Inquiring Minds
At a recent evaluation workshop by the Tamarack Institute, Liz Weaver and Mark Cabaj challenged us to consider evaluation as a kind of inquiry. Mark talked about how the conceptual use of evaluation...
View ArticleCuriosity about Connections and Patterns
At a recent evaluation workshop put on by the Tamarack Institute featuring Liz Weaver and Mark Cabaj, I participated in a workshop by Vanessa Timmer. Vanessa demonstrated systems mapping using an...
View ArticleThe New Evaluation Reporting
“No offense, but I’m not actually going to read this” said a client last week about my Final Evaluation Report. I’ve been gathering data for two years and have spent countless hours putting it...
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Confidence and Motivation
I recently presented a workshop on confidence and motivation for a mentorship program I support, and was asked to provide more concrete examples of how to nurture and maintain confidence and...
View ArticleGratitude and Teamwork
I’ve just completed an intensive series of reports to close multi-year evaluations with several clients. The experience has led me to reflect on my team members and how grateful I am to work with so...
View ArticleTalking about Failure
I’ve been hearing a lot about failure lately: “I don’t want to admit that I have failed”, “Let’s re-frame these results so it doesn’t seem like we failed”. Most of these comments have come from what...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Evaluation as a Community and Profession
I’m delighted to be Co-chairing the 2017 CES conference with Chris Lovato. My first introduction to CES was at the 2010 conference in Victoria. I’d been working in evaluation for many years,...
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Common Outcomes: #metrics + #meaning
Building meaningful frameworks for measuring diverse projects contributing to common outcomes requires a clarity and simplicity that is truly challenging to achieve. This has been my focus this year...
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Inspiration from Marrakesh
The well-organized and visionary Francophone evaluation network (RFE) conference in Marrakesh was an inspiration for me as Co-Chair of this year’s Canadian Evaluation Society Conference. I had the...
View ArticleEnthusiasm for the Unknown
Last year was busy with diverse projects and even more varied types of deliverables, such as: evaluation framework, accountability report, evaluation report, evaluation brief, roadmap for system...
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