Evaluation Learning Circle
Posted March 30th, 2007 by Elissa Perry -->The Evaluation Learning Circle is a community of leadership development evaluators, practitioners, and funders who share resources, engage in shared inquiry, and generate collective knowledge about how best to support and evaluate leadership development for social change and social justice. For the last year we have been experimenting with a wiki as a documentation and learning tool.
We use evaluation and research as tools to:
- surface our assumptions and theories about leadership development and social change,
- define outcomes and indicators that can be documented or measured,
- adapt exisiting methods of inquiry and develop new methods to document and measure leadership development,
- build the capacity of leadership programs and initiatives to participate actively in evaluation and research, and
- improve our efforts to develop and support leadership and to make the case for investing in leadership development as a social change and social justice strategy.
We use virtual and face-to-face learning activities to explore answers to our most important questions. We document our learning through the Evaluation Knowledge Pool where we share and link to practical resources that can be used to strengthen program design and implementation and improve our evaluations. Visit the wiki to learn more about us and our recent work.
Blog Entries
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- The Leadership Learning Community Health Leadership Circle and the Center for Creative Leadership, hosted a peer consultation session using an on-line conference tool, WebEx. During the hour and half call, over 30 people provided insights, inquiries and tested advice to a team from the Center Creative Leadership who are partnering with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop "Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders."20 Nov 2007 - 7:35am
- What experiences have you had developing and using EvaluLEAD results maps? How have you adapted EvaluLEAD in the contexts you are working in?22 Oct 2007 - 6:29am
- What is the role of evaluation in the process of leadership innovation? This is a question we discussed recently at a Boston Circle gathering. Debbie Frieze shared Berkana’s theory of change that starts with a premise that local leadership is a powerful force for innovation and change. Experimentation with new ideas and processes happens at the local level where leaders are responding to the conditions they face. They actively seek alternatives to “business as usual.” Innovation often inspires resistance because people are not easily able to let go of the old to make room for the new.23 Sep 2007 - 4:19pm
- Networks and communities of practice are often terms that are used interchangeably. Is there a difference?9 Sep 2007 - 9:12am
- Welcome to the Evaluation Learning Circle blog space! We invite you to register to our site and create your own blog to share resources, ideas, and stimulate conversations about leadership development evaluation that are important to you. Here's my first blog post.... In the last few years there has been growing interest among those in the leadership development field to develop and strengthen leadership networks. One of the tools for understanding networks is Social Network Analysis (SNA).22 Jul 2007 - 12:04pm
- If you would like to learn more about how leadership programs evaluate their outcomes and impacts, e.g., what outcomes and indicators they define, what approaches, methods, and sources of information21 Jun 2007 - 1:43pm
- The Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation is now available! The Handbook provides broad and practical information about how to conduct leadership development evaluations using a variety of approaches. This companion site includes the book's introduction, a summary of each chapter, and links to resources that are mentioned in each chapter. The Handbook was edited by Kelly Hannum, Jennifer Martineau (both with The Center for Creative Leadership), and Claire Reinelt of LLC and brings together a collection of outstanding leadership development evaluators from the nonprofit and for-profit sectors to share their learning about leadership development evaluation design, implementation and use in different contexts.21 Jun 2007 - 1:37pm
- At Creating Space VII, the Evaluation Learning Circle hosted three sessions. Click on the links below for more information and resources.21 Jun 2007 - 1:16pm
- The Evaluation Learning Circle held a meeting on January 17th-18th, 2007 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first day combined the work of the Funders' and Evaluation Learning Circles. Our theme was "Deepening our Capacity to Foster and Evaluate Collective Leadership." With a growing interest among funders and practitioners in cultivating boundary-crossing leadership, community leadership and collective leadership, we saw an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen our understanding of what collective leadership is and how to evaluate it.21 Jun 2007 - 1:06pm
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