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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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5 Steps to Evaluate Employee Learning Performance

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An efficient performance management system concentrates on aligning the workforce, improving employee development and performance, building competencies within the work environment, and eventually driving better business results. Read the article to know the 5 steps organizations can follow to evaluate their Employee Learning Performance.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. They are activities that are frequently governed and controlled by policies and procedures, such as: Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin conversations about risk.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. Self-regulation— or learning to effectively manage conflict, challenges, and stress is critical in fast-paced digital environments. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation. Be public about your priorities.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Then you need an environment that maximizes individual talents while allowing groups to work successfully together. It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Hiring employees who are the right fit for this positive environment is a top priority. Hiring for skill is easy.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. I can’t remember a time when the cultural, political, and economic environment was fraught with so much uncertainty. Evaluate your current community and identify where expanded representation might be beneficial. The pandemic was a wormhole.

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