| Roundtable: Using Coaching Techniques in Logic Model Development to Help Clients Think Clearly |
| Roundtable Presentation 347 to be held in the Limestone Boardroom on Thursday, Nov 6, 3:35 PM to 4:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Program Theory and Theory-driven Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Maggie Miller, Maggie Miller Consulting, maggie@maggiemiller.org |
| Abstract: In working collaboratively with stakeholders to create logic models, evaluators may notice that the process can be enlightening for the client. In the course of creating the logic model a stakeholder may notice gaps between activities and outcomes, the grandiosity or paucity of impacts, or the mismatch of resources and activities; all of which help him/her revise the program plan. The techniques of coaching – asking reflective questions, using paraphrasing to synthesize ideas, challenging clients to consider unexplored possibilities – are handy skills in this process. At this roundtable, a short presentation and a discussion focused around targeted questions will help us identify coaching skills that we can refine in order to be most helpful to clients when we work with them to create logic models. |