Evaluating Your Evaluation (EYE)
- How are you telling the story of your program?
- Do you and your staff scramble at the end of the program year to collect shallow data about your impact?
We recognize that every organization grows in the direction of its most persistent inquiries. Having clear, crisp, and meaningful evaluation is essential to the future effectiveness of every cause-driven organization.
- Learn examples of techniques and experiences from programs across North America
- Renovate one of their own program evaluations
- Discover how to develop leadership capacity through evaluation
- Gain practical ideas for using findings to engage audiences and shape future program development.
Who should attend:
- Organizational leaders
- Program directors
- Program coordinators
- Volunteers and frontline staff
About the Facilitator:
Steve Patty, Ph.D.is founder and principal of Dialogues In Action, LLC, a consulting firm that helps leaders of organizations rethink the development ofpeople. DIA provides qualitative research to enhance organizational health and culture, designs educational processes to maximize human capital, and grows leadership development strategies within human service organizations.
His background is in academia, serving as Associate Director of Doctoral Programs at the University of Monaco in the Principality of Monaco (in cooperation with the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), where he continues to teach as an adjunct faculty member. He also held the department chair in Educational Leadership at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon.
He has a Ph.D. from Trinity in Chicago, IL and has been trained at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, MA. He is a frequent conference speaker, an author, entrepreneur, and avid inquirer into the development of human and organizational potential.
Dialogues in Action LLC
The style of dia is collaborative, hence the name, “dialogues in action.” We believe that well-designed conversations matter a great deal, and that creative power is unleashed in response to the right kinds of questions and interactions. The generative imagination of a community of inquirers is a force for organizational growth.