Staff (parts of the whole) undergo periodic employee evaluations, why not the organization (the whole)? Are you evidence-based, and strengths-centered? To what degree are you aligned with your intended outcomes? Evaluations provide objective answers that help improve agency operations, manage resistance to change, and vehicles for communicating with internal and external stakeholders. Other uses may also include;

1. developing and utilizing performance measures to assess key results;
2. developing and utilizing action plans;
3. monitoring implementation through process evaluation.
4. uncovering and articulating clearly what challenges to tackle, actions to take, and why, plus
5. determining where opportunities lie ahead.

While there are challenges, so are systems to ensure each individual and the collective are leveraging the power of proven methods, mindsets, and resources for the immediate and long-term benefit of all involved. This approach provides an efficient roadmap to your evidence-based success.

Periodic EBO performance evaluations help ensure data driven decision-making, and actions that are based on evidence-based frameworks. As an independent evaluator, we objectively assess work being done, and examine the degree to which results line-up with your (and your funders') intended outcomes. We then produce your very own comprehensive report card stating our findings and a set of recommendations you can use.

Our efforts focus on the five areas of evidence-based organizational development and effectiveness:

1. Knowledge and use of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices.
2.  Demonstration of effective organizational leadership.
3. Understanding of organizational culture and use of organizational assessment.
4. Utilization of effective strategic planning, performance measurement, and program evaluation.
5. Ongoing efforts to enhance organizational capacity and sustainability.

Agencies, if they wish may share their report card with stakeholders, employees and funders. Funders have also been known to require report cards as well!

A good evaluation program:

1. Measure's Performance – Provide tangible evidence you are putting resources where you should and direct your scarce resources toward what is effective.
2. Demonstrates Program Benefits – Stakeholders have evidence to support sustaining your program. Data gathered may be used to solicit funding, request additional funds to expand programs, or justify offering the same program elsewhere.
3. Helps Improve Program Effectiveness – Your team can confidently point to evidence on how improvements are a direct result of what you are doing, and
4. Makes Recommendations You Can Use – You will know what adjustments to make if outcomes are not likely to be achieved.

There's so much more you can do with our reports. Use it to determine what on-site training and capacity building you need for shoring up operational gaps hampering progress. Checkout insights from others below like you and how it benefitted them.

Because our report card process is designed and executed in alignment with basic evaluation principles, it benefits you in several ways. For instance:

• Utility: Ensures you are collecting credible, useful and timely information. An effective evaluation helps you determine what is working and how. It also informs decision-making to address current realities, make needed adjustments, or discontinue an effort altogether
• Feasibility: Prioritizes evaluation that is practical, cost-effective and politically viable
• Propriety: Accounts for legal and ethical standards governing an evaluation process. Careful consideration is given for all involved and for others who might be impacted
• Accuracy: Relates to the rigor of your evaluation plan, data collection methods and willingness to report the bad just as much as the good. Data gathered must be accurate to both be useful and ensure your organization’s credibility.

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With our expert personnel and software tools, we'll project manage in the following four steps with minimum onsite involvement.

1. Using online tools, we will gather survey data from staff
2. Survey data gathered will be analyzed
3. A report will be produced based on data gathered
4. Recommendations will be made based on analysis of data gathered

Are you ready to take the next step and begin the process?