Workshops
PIE provides workshops that can support your organization’s evaluation and planning processes. We want you to be your own best evaluator!
Offerings
PIE offers a suite of workshops that are tailored to your organization’s specific needs and can range from a single workshop to multiple days. Common offerings include the following:
Logic Modeling 101
This workshop will introduce logic models as a tool for program planning and evaluation. We will guide your team through a collaborative process to identify your program’s intended impacts, outcomes, outputs, and activities and discuss how a logic model can be used to guide program work plans.
Strategy 101
This workshop is an introduction to PIE’s iterative and actionable approach to strategic planning. You will dive into the components of a strategic plan, explore analysis tools, and review sample strategic plans to become more comfortable engaging in a strategic planning process that supports your organization’s continued growth.
Engaging Community in Findings Dissemination
This workshop is useful for organizations seeking to deepen community engagement with evaluation findings. We will share tips to identify and analyze the gaps in utilization of evaluation findings and develop a plan for sharing future evaluation findings with stakeholders.
Ethics in Evaluation
This workshop supports a broad understanding of ethics in evaluation and addresses different approaches to ethical evaluation such as Culturally Responsive Evaluation, Equity-based Evaluations, and Trauma-informed Evaluation. During the workshop you will practice applying these approaches to a case study and consider how these approaches could inform your work.
Survey Development
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of survey development including constructs, components of an item, mitigating bias, and more. Afterwards, we will discuss and then apply best practices for item writing and survey development using interactive activities.
Listening Tours
This workshop focuses on one of PIE’s key methods to engage stakeholders in evaluation planning – a listening tour. We will discuss when to use listening tours and engage in a hands-on activity to create listening tour protocols for your current areas of interest in which it would be beneficial to gather stakeholder feedback.
Crafting Evaluative Questions
This workshop provides guidance and recommendations for asking qualitative questions in a variety of contexts, from informal chats with stakeholders to qualitative interviewing. You will learn tips, tricks, and resources to asking open-ended questions that get at what you want to know and make your audience feel comfortable sharing their lived experience.
Informal Interviewing
This workshop is an introduction to informal interviewing which is a qualitative method to gather authentic feedback and peel back layers to understand nuanced or complex contexts. You will learn how to develop a semi-structured interview protocol, practice using it, and develop a system for periodically reflecting on the data to inform practice.
Ripple Effect Mapping
This workshop will explore ripple effect mapping as a method to understand impact through shared ownership of data collection and meaning making with stakeholders to tell the story of your work. Ripple effect mapping affirms the lived experiences of your stakeholders, encourages deep listening, supports relationship-building, and is customizable to meet your needs.
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Annual PIE Day
Every year on PIE Day (March 14th) Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation Org provides a free, virtual workshop. The three most recent years’ workshop topics have been Telling the Story: Promoting Your Work and Capturing Your Impact, Stakeholder Evaluation Participation Through Listening Tours, and Developing Meaningful Questions.
I’ll use the information I received today to improve the questions I use when gathering feedback.
The tip sheet helped me realize that I need to be more intentional with my questions.