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“This process can be done at different scales and throughout the process. It’s just a habit of thinking, a way of organizing; it’s part of your strategic and daily planning.”

“Before I went into the training, I didn’t get a feeling that [evaluation] was a beginning to end kind of thing. The most valuable thing [from the workshop] was the concept of taking an evaluation for an ongoing program and [using] this as a tool to see if you are going in the right direction before during and after [you implement a project]…I now think of evaluation differently, it’s a tool to set direction.”
 “[This] process is very clear and logical. It made me really take a hard look at where my organization puts its resources as well as what threats we ignore because of their complexity.”

“Instead of using the process as the absolute template, the only way to get business done, it stirred my thought processes and I could figure out how to make it work in different situations and modify it.  It’s like the Fanny Farmer Cookbook, this old-fashioned cookbook that has the basic recipe and a whole bunch of suggestions on how to modify it.”

“The flow chart and map that you had us work through, that tool as an end product on our work plan is better than all the writing that we do.”

“The mapping forces you to take a look at what you are doing now – is that really leading to what you want?  Sometimes you tend to charge ahead and you get so deep into the middle of what you are charging ahead at that you don’t ask the question:  is this really what we want to get at?”

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