The Times They Are A-Changin’: Adapting Organizations to Foster “Cultures of Evidence”
Roundtable
Sobre o evento
What happens when policymakers increasingly charge organizations with creating stronger “cultures of evidence”? What does that even mean, and where does one even begin?
This roundtable and facilitated Q&A with evaluators and change management professionals from Guidehouse will give participants the opportunity to learn from their experiences and lessons learned in helping various bureaus across the U.S. government adopt more systematic processes where employees regularly develop and answer learning questions, create plans to disseminate and use evaluation findings, and update learning agendas to reflect new frontiers. The roundtable conversation will explore what a “culture of evidence” looks like, feels like, and behaves like.
With many practitioners asking the perennial questions of how evaluations can be more useful and drive impact, this conversation will allow one group of M&E, change management, and evaluation professionals the opportunity to cast their gaze inward and reflect on the technologies, methods, and partnership attributes needed to help organizations produce, disseminate, and utilize valuable insights and recommendations in diverse operating environments.
Roundtable topics will include, among others:
• How to design evaluation products that make it easier to study and learn from evidence and new knowledge generated.
• How going beyond traditional change management approaches (communications and training) to leverage behavioral economics (nudges) can influence what people feel, think, and do.
• Examples of good knowledge management practices that can more effectively inform policy and program design.
• Lessons learned on the importance of data management to create the time and space for organizations to curate, study, and learn from evidence.
In the last 15-20 minutes of the session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the roundtable participants and engage in dialogue about personal experiences and reflections of their own to foster greater learning among the group.
This roundtable and facilitated Q&A with evaluators and change management professionals from Guidehouse will give participants the opportunity to learn from their experiences and lessons learned in helping various bureaus across the U.S. government adopt more systematic processes where employees regularly develop and answer learning questions, create plans to disseminate and use evaluation findings, and update learning agendas to reflect new frontiers. The roundtable conversation will explore what a “culture of evidence” looks like, feels like, and behaves like.
With many practitioners asking the perennial questions of how evaluations can be more useful and drive impact, this conversation will allow one group of M&E, change management, and evaluation professionals the opportunity to cast their gaze inward and reflect on the technologies, methods, and partnership attributes needed to help organizations produce, disseminate, and utilize valuable insights and recommendations in diverse operating environments.
Roundtable topics will include, among others:
• How to design evaluation products that make it easier to study and learn from evidence and new knowledge generated.
• How going beyond traditional change management approaches (communications and training) to leverage behavioral economics (nudges) can influence what people feel, think, and do.
• Examples of good knowledge management practices that can more effectively inform policy and program design.
• Lessons learned on the importance of data management to create the time and space for organizations to curate, study, and learn from evidence.
In the last 15-20 minutes of the session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the roundtable participants and engage in dialogue about personal experiences and reflections of their own to foster greater learning among the group.
Orador/a
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Scanlon | Managing Consultant | Lindsay is a Manager with Guidehouse, where she leads engagements that support clients across the fields of human capital, change management, and process improvement. |
| Cynthia Rathinasamy | Managing Consultant | Cynthia is a Manager with Guidehouse, focusing on providing M&E, organizational change, and program management support to clients. She has supported variety of international development and diplomacy-focused clients. |
| Alyssa Deffenbaugh | Senior Consultant | Alyssa is a Senior Consultant with Guidehouse, where she leads and contributes to evaluations, and provides clients with a range of capacity building, monitoring, and program design support. |
| Kelly Zimmerman | Senior Consultant | Kelly is a Senior Consultant with Guidehouse, where she leads and contributes to evaluations, and provides clients with a range of capacity building, program design and monitoring support. |