Today’s post started as a comic request and turned into a Q&A. Here is the question that came to me from Randi Knox. I’m looking for a comic to communicate the difference between program monitoring vs program evaluation. I didn’t see anything specific to this in your existing materials. I was wondering if you’d be […]
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Canva Templates – Inspired by the Nature Conservancy
Trying out a new series this week. The idea is simple, I find some inspiration and then use that inspiration to create a set of Canva report page templates. If you keep your eyes open, design inspiration is literally everywhere. Mailers, posters, text books, magazines, websites, and social media are just a handful of potential […]
Evaluation Ethics Fails, 8 illustrations
I’m sick this week, so instead of writing something new, I thought I republish something valuable from 11 years ago. This cartoon was inspired through a conversation with my good friend Ann K. Emery. This was back when Ann was a full time evaluator and before the launch of her super successful training academy and […]
Building Your Creativity Toolkit
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating” These are words that came from comedy icon, John Cleese. Head to YouTube if you want to watch one of his talks on creativity, and the source of this quote. The quote itself has really stuck with me over the years as I have […]
5 Baby Steps to Better Reports
A couple of years ago I put out a book called the Reporting Revolution. And while I still believe just about everything I wrote in that book, I know many of you are not actually looking to start a revolution. You just want to start creating better reports. So, with that in mind, today’s post […]
Is your team, report deficient?
Long, boring, dusty-shelf reports might be a problem, but it’s rarely the biggest problem most data teams face. When teams decide to start tackling their report design problems, that’s where they start. They think that if they can turn their long, boring, dusty-shelf report into something that’s not as long, not as boring, and more […]