The Ability to Evaluate
The ability to evaluate requires cultivating special attributes, values and behavioural skills
Personal Attributes
The ability to: - Center and focus attention
- Hold the space and get out of your own way
- Open the heart and mind to receive information without judgment
- Create frameworks and organizing structures, tools and systems to filter information in a consistent fashion
- Be impartial and non-attached to outcomes.
Evaluating Skills and Behaviours
- Integrity and commitment to best practices
- Creating information gathering, organizing and analyzing systems and processes
- Establishing filters and other tools for information mining
- Aligning evaluation practices with strategic business objectives
- Systematic and purposeful fact-finding
- Developing communication plans and process to disseminate information effectively
- Presenting information in useful and practical reports designed for specific purpose
- Monitoring the evaluation process with committment to continuous improvement
- Excellent listening, analystical and communications, skills to enhance process and contribute value
- Effective team player.
The process of evaluation is a function of management - making the most of available resources. The integrity applied to the evaluative process is prerequisite to sound leadership and ensures information is relevant (aligned with strategic direction), accurate and coherent.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein
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