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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. I know what you’re thinking. Do we really need yet another “The Art of”? Can’t we let this naming convention go and find something more creative for our workshop titles? I sympathize, I do, yet here we are. Because this time it’s my […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash “Can we even get that data?” That question, or some version of it, is usually one of the first, if not the first, question I hear when planning or discussing a new evaluation project. People want to […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. I don’t have a specifically appropriate image for this post, so here’s a nice picture I took at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden over the weekend. One of the first posts I put up here was one about advice for emerging evaluators, based […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Jordan McDonald on Unsplash. I swear the picture is relevant. If you listened to our recent episode of Eval Cafe with Michael Quinn Patton on principles-focused evaluation, you’ll remember him sharing his new favourite example of principles in action. It’s from […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Jordan McDonald on Unsplash. I swear the picture is relevant. If you listened to our recent episode of Eval Cafe with Michael Quinn Patton on principles-focused evaluation, you’ll remember him sharing his new favourite example of principles in action. It’s from […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Francisco J. Villena on Unsplash Transformation is awkward. I mean, we all know that change is hard, but it’s also awkward. It’s been a big year for me. The last ten months in particular have included a lot of things I […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. I tweeted a joke about making an adult colouring book with reflective questions on each page for evaluators and it found a VERY receptive audience, so….. I made a prototype! You can download the PDF here. I hope you all colour your way […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Mike Kenneally on Unsplash. I can’t recall for certain, but I think the first person I “had coffee” with in a professional capacity was my friend Brian Hoessler, a fellow evaluation consultant and now my co-host on our evaluation-themed podcast, Eval […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. This blog post has been jointly written by Carolyn Camman and Art Assoiants. We connected through the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Mentoring Initiative in 2018 and this post is our way of sharing some of the learnings from our journey together as mentor (Carolyn) […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at camman-evaluation.com. Photo by Tyson Dudley on Unsplash. Today I was asked to design a meeting outline for a hypothetical scenario in which a group of people needed to winnow down an ambitious list of topics for inclusion in a strategic plan. This was part […]