evaluation

March 24, 2010

Aside: Lack of Accountability

Seen: According to a recent survey of C-level executives conducted by BusinessWeek Research Services, the biggest obstacles to successful execution of performance management are “lack of accountability” and “a culture that does not support measurement.” (Instilling Company-Wide Accountability). It’s not about “scorecarding” but about “accountability.”

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March 22, 2010

Jerry Rankin on Assessment and Accountability

In a new blog post, Jerry Rankin talks about the “activity trap”: “We need more budget, but don’t ask us to be accountable for what we do with it. After all, we are engaged in a spiritual task and the results are up to God. We cannot be held accountable for results… as long as they [...]

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March 12, 2010

How To: evaluate your non-profit events

Here’s a new book, “Analyze This: a Nonprofit’s Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics.” Reviewed in Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog.

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March 2, 2010

No assessment may be better than a bad one.

There is an age-old argument in missions and the church in general when it comes to assessing anything: the argument of quantity vs. quality. Pick up any review of a statistical reference on the church (e.g. Operation World, the World Christian Encyclopedia, World Christian Trends or the recently released Atlas of Global Christianity, reviewed in [...]

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