Is your organization achieving its desired outcomes? How evidence-based and strengths-centered does your organization truly operate? 

You need to understand the performance of your team and the organization as a whole. You must be able to articulate the benefits of each action within your organization clearly. And, it's essential your organization is clear on where the opportunities lie for improvement, and how to roll them out. 

Without this clarity and direction, you won't last long as an evidence-based organization.

The world is further becoming more sophisticated and tangled up in a variety of agendas, problems, and people. Navigating these challenges to build an active organization is hard enough. When we intersect it with the complications of our clients and the issues they're facing (as we all are culturally), it can feel impossible to succeed on the ground or at the high level of the business.

But while the challenges are there, so are the systems to ensure each individual and the collective are leveraging the power of useful methods, mindsets, and resources for the immediate and long term benefit of all involved.

Consequently, it is essential to undergo organizational self-evaluation from time to time. A good evaluation plan includes:

1. Performance Measurement – Provide tangible evidence you are putting resources where you should, and in particular, direct your scarce resources toward what is effective.
2. Program Benefits Demonstrated – 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. Program Effectiveness Improvement – Your team can confidently point to evidence on how improvements are a direct result of what you are doing, and
4. Recommendations – You will know what adjustments to make if outcomes are not likely to be achieved.

As an evaluator for various organizations, we aim our activities at (a) your intended outcomes, and (b) the degree to which what you do are evidence-based and strength-centered. We assess your intended outcomes, work you are currently doing, guide data gathering efforts and processes, measure results and examine the degree to which the results line-up with intended outcomes.  

We then produce a comprehensive document reporting our findings and recommendations. In the end, our efforts can install basic evaluation principles such as:

• 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.

Start the process with a simple performance evaluation. 

We've evaluated numerous organizations, and they're feedback has been positive. Many of them have followed our recommendations with on-site training to shore up the operational gaps preventing them from being fully evidence-based and strengths-centered. View what some have to say below.

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As part of our first phase of engagement, and towards certification, we'll evaluate your organization to identify where you're strong, and where the gaps for improvement are located.

Assessment Process

With our expert personnel and software tools, we'll project manage, assemble the report card without onsite involvement needed. This will involve the following four steps.

1. Survey data will be gathered from staff for analysis.
2. Survey data will be analyzed.
3. A report will be provided based on data gathered.
4. Recommendations will be made.

Report Card Focus

The data, report, and recommendations will focus on the following five areas of evidence-based organizational development:

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.

Is your organization ready to take the next step and begin the assessment process?