Upcoming session:
- October 14, 28, November 11, 2025
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Collective Traction for Evaluation Impact: Project Management Skills
Facilitator: Erich Koroschetz
Even the best evaluation can stall if the work plan isn’t clear, collaborative, and adaptable. Join us for a three-part series on how to improve and clarify your evaluation goals and project management skills.
Monitoring and Evaluation professionals play a pivotal role in guiding organizations to evidence that supports mission-critical decisions, but who decides what those decisions should be? Additionally, organizing and managing complicated evaluations requires a structured approach to reliably satisfy expectations over the course of an evaluation. This course equips M&E practitioners with practical and essential design-thinking and project management skills to enhance the effectiveness of their evaluations.
Through interactive sessions and hands-on exercises, participants will learn to clarify requirements for human-centred evaluations, break down complex goals into manageable steps, and coordinate activities in a structured and adaptive manner. The course emphasizes the use of applicable design-thinking principles and tools to ensure inclusivity and alignment with constituent needs.
By actively engaging in live Zoom learning events with enhanced interactivity features, participants will each contribute to our collective learning experience. Prior to each Session, registered participants will be issued a digital workbook, allowing them to print and capture their personal reflections and learnings throughout the session and to apply in future Sessions. Light correspondence with registered participants between sessions will encourage a sustained focus on new learning.
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Session 1: A Human-Centred Approach to Define Your Evaluations
October 14, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm
Defining Your Service’s Mission-Critical Criteria
Uncover what is truly meaningful to those who use and are a part of the services you are monitoring.
Together, we will explore foundational Design-Thinking concepts and use empathy-based service design tools to define methods and criteria for evaluating various services we encounter together. By the end of this session, participants will be able to use Design-Thinking tools to reveal evaluation requirements that honour and reflect a diversity of user perspectives.
Session 2: Structuring Your Evaluations for Shared Success
October 28, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm
Visualize Your Evaluation Project
Structure comprehensive evaluations to ensure your team and partners are familiar with their responsibilities.
In this session, participants will apply learnings from Session 1 to define the key objectives and contextual assumptions that shape the scope of their evaluation project. Together, we’ll consider how program and service assets like logframes help to break the evaluation into practical “work packages” that can be shared among team members to produce the critical deliverables and outcomes of the evaluation project’s overall scope. At the end of this session, participants will be able to clearly outline an evaluation project’s scope, requirements, and team roles and responsibilities.
Session 3: Co-Creating an Actionable Evaluation Work Plan
November 11, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm
Develop Your Resilient Work Plan
Galvanize your evaluation strategy with an adaptive plan.
Building on the clarity and structure established in earlier Sessions, together we will explore logical dependencies between work packages and map the overall process based on core assumptions. We will explore project management strategies that preserve the core success criteria of the evaluation while flexing plans when you are confronted with unfolding real-world conditions. By the end of this session, participants will have consolidated their understanding of how a well-structured, adaptive work plan protects the intent and integrity of a collaboratively developed, mission-oriented evaluation.
Learning outcomes:
Domain 1: Reflective Practice
1.4 Considers the well-being of human and natural systems in evaluation practice
Domain 2: Technical Practice
2.1 Clarifies the purpose and scope of the evaluation
2.3 Clarifies the program theory
2.4 Frames evaluation topics and questions
Domain 3: Situational Practice
3.1 Examines and responds to the multiple human and natural contexts within which the program is embedded
3.2 Identifies stakeholder’ needs and their capacity to participate, while recognizing, respecting and responding to aspects of diversity.
3.3 Respects all stakeholder and strives to build and maintain trusting relationships
3.5 Monitors and responds to organizational changes and changes in the program environment during the course of the evaluation.
Domain 4: Management Practice
4.1 Provides leadership to the evaluation project
4.2 Defines work parameters, plans and agreements for the evaluation
4.4 Coordinates the work of other team members
4.5 Uses group management and facilitation skills
Domain 5: Interpersonal Practice
5.1 Uses communication strategies appropriate to the cultural, linguistic, social, and political context
About the Facilitator:
Erich Koroschetz is an experienced guide in project management, quality improvement, and change management, with over 20 years of leading projects, improvement, and evaluation initiatives in both public and private sectors. As a post-secondary educator known for his engaging, candid, and inclusive style, Erich connects proven insights to real-world application, helping professionals achieve clarity, collaboration, and measurable results. Erich operates a consulting practice dedicated to equipping public enterprise with skills and resources to deliver projects responsibly for community change.