Session Description: Explore lessons learned in structuring evaluation projects, improving client relationships, responding to ethical issues, managing project resources and enhancing personal survival skills in stressful work environments. The presenter will share her hard-won lessons from the field, which have allowed her to bootstrap her evaluation practice up from one level to the next over the past two decades.
Participants will have an opportunity to work in small groups to develop solutions to a scenario and will compare strategies with their colleagues. At the end of the workshop, you will take away some fresh ideas to tackle your most pressing evaluation challenges.
You will learn:
Gail V. Barrington is an independent consultant who started her consulting firm, Barrington Research Group, Inc. in 1985. She has conducted over 100 program evaluation studies and has made a significant contribution to the field of evaluation through her practice, writing, teaching, training, mentoring and service. In 2008, she won the Canadian Evaluation Society award for her Contribution to Evaluation in Canada.