Training and Coaching

Hiring consultants can get expensive, and we get that not every organization can afford to hire evaluators or consultants to do ongoing work. We provide training and coaching services to strengthen organizations' ability to do these things for themselves. We will work with your needs and budget to provide customized training to fit both. All of our training is designed to be interactive and hands on with minimal or no lectures. Some training we offer is described below.

We provide customized evaluation training to suit your organization's specific needs. We can offer a short course or coaching to train and prepare your staff to collect, analyze, and report data for a specific project or we can deliver a more intensive boot camp to prepare your staff to engage in evaluation from start (theory of change and logic models) to finish (analysis and reporting). 

If you find it difficult to share data with non-data oriented folks, we can provide you with training that will make data sharing engaging and fun. We can help you and your staff to learn new ways to engage their audiences to discuss and use data for planning and evaluation.

We provide customized training to coalition leaders and members to build new or strengthen existing coalitions. W have comprehensive two-day training programs that include everything from engaging community to reporting evaluation results. We also offer shorter, customized training to meet a special need, such as how to bring in more members or how to use data. 

 Drawing on years of experience and lessons shared in our new Guidebook to Community Consulting (I wrote this with Dr. Ann Price), we provide customized training to organizations on how to effectively engage with community members.