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PE CoE Week: Jenica Reed on Key skills for federal evaluators (and all remote workers)

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / November 1, 2016 October 30, 2016

Hi! I am Jenica Reed, an evaluation specialist with Deloitte Consulting LLP. While working remotely with team members and clients, I’ve learned that communication, interpersonal skills, and other so-called “soft skills” have each played a role in the achievements of our work. The importance of these skills is often left out of trainings. If you …

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PE CoE Week: Patrick Koeppl on Authenticity and meaning in qualitative data analyses

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / October 31, 2016 October 30, 2016

I’m Patrick Koeppl, cultural anthropologist, mixed methods scientist, Halloween enthusiast and Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Throughout my career, I have found mixed methods are often the leading way to conduct broad evaluation of complex systems and situations. Qualitative approaches like in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, policy reviews, and many others have a …

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#Eval2016 Week: Some of this year’s Poster Authors on Creating engaging posters at the intersection of Evaluation+Design

4 Comments / Uncategorized / October 27, 2016 October 26, 2016

Hello there! Liz Zadnik here – I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with a few of the authors at this year’s poster presentation and reception. I asked some to share their experiences with poster creation, and will also add some of the innovative strategies I noticed folks using. What would you tell a colleague …

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Liz Zadnik on Getting present and bringing mindfulness into your professional practice

2 Comments / Uncategorized / October 8, 2016 October 8, 2016

Happy October everyone! I’m Liz Zadnik, aea365’s Outreach Coordinator, and I’d like to share something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. In addition to being an evaluation enthusiast, I’m also a mindfulness enthusiast and believe practicing presence and/or meditation can infinitely improve our lives (both professional and personal). Lesson Learned: This story, about the …

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Liz Zadnik on Highlights from the 2016 Rape Prevention & Education Leadership Training

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 17, 2016 September 17, 2016

Greetings friends! Liz Zadnik here with a rundown from this year’s Rape Prevention and Education Leadership Training in Washington DC. Each year, preventionists from state sexual assault coalitions and departments of health come together to celebrate prevention efforts, network with one another, and challenge each other to innovate. It’s an inspiring space – I’m always …

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Marissa Marzano on Making data stick with design

2 Comments / Uncategorized / September 13, 2016 September 11, 2016

I’m Marissa Marzano, and I’m the Communications Specialist at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I’ve sat through many a PowerPoint jam-packed with utterly fantastic information, only to leave a session and wonder, “What was that about again?” You’ve crunched the numbers, you’re geeking out over your results… now how do you ensure your …

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Paul Collier on practicing great data and evaluation habits – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 26, 2016 August 24, 2016

Hello again! Paul Collier here. Yesterday, I shared several resources that helped me create repeatable data and evaluation processes at SFCAPC Today I’d like to share with you six of the specific habits I followed to manage our “data” function, develop our Efforts to Outcomes database, and provide consistent value to our staff. Lessons Learned: …

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Paul Collier on creating great data and evaluation habits – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 25, 2016 August 24, 2016

Hello AEA365! I’m Paul Collier. Over the last two years I worked as the Data and Evaluation Manager at the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center (SFCAPC), a mid-size nonprofit focused on ending child abuse in San Francisco. At SFCAPC, I worked with all our 50+ staff members to help them use our data to …

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