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Sep
16
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What would you rather look at? Some paragraphs of text and bullet points that explain in a step-by-step fashion your process and outcomes evaluation plans, or a diagram of those plans? For me the answer is easy: a diagram. Diagrams have the advantage of being quickly understandable, interesting to look at, invite participation of the… Read More »
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Sep
09
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I once heard evaluator extraordinaire Michael Patton say that an evaluator could staple an executive summary to a bunch of pages ripped from a phone book and no one would notice. Possibly our readers have developed a fear of drowning in numbers and technical information? (For our younger blog followers, a phone book is that… Read More »
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Sep
02
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Last week we wrote some basic goals and objectives for a proposal about teaching health literacy skills to vampires in Sunnydale. Here’s what the goals and objectives look like, taken from the Executive Summary statement in last week’s post: Goal: The goal of our From Dusk to Dawn project is to improve the health and… Read More »
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Aug
26
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Vocabulary. Jargon. Semantics. Sometimes I think it’s the death of us all. Seriously, it’s really hard to have a conversation about anything when you use the same words in the same context to mean completely different things. Take Goals and Objectives. I can’t tell you how many different ways this has been taught to me. … Read More »
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Aug
19
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Every self-respecting workshop has its share of hacks. Today’s post is about the NEO Shop Talk’s SWOT hack. Most of our readers have heard of SWOT analysis, because of its widespread use in strategic planning. NEO developed its own special version of SWOT analysis to help our readers and training participants with preparation of funding… Read More »
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