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AEA Course: Getting Started: Introductory Consulting Skills for Evaluators

  • 04 Feb 2013
  • 11:00 AM
  • 13 Feb 2013
  • 12:30 PM
  • Online
eStudy 025: Getting Started: Introductory Consulting Skills for Evaluators - Gail Barrington

Dates: Mondays and Wednesdays February 4, 6, 11, and 13, 11:00 AM -12:30 PM Eastern Time.

Length: 6 total contact hours

Description: Are you a program evaluator contemplating venturing out on your own? For many, this may be both an exciting but intimidating prospect. Taught by an independent consultant, this practical eStudy course will reveal the simple but important skills needed to be successful.

The course helps participants apply management consulting, entrepreneurial and small business skills to the evaluation and applied research setting. Valuable samples, worksheets, insider tips and trade secrets are provided. Through lecture, anecdote, at-home exercises, and independent reflection, participants are encouraged to identify and address the unique issues they face and to prepare an action plan.

This eStudy will occur in four 90-minute sessions. A pre-course worksheet will be circulated for completion prior to Day 1 and an at-home investigative assignment will precede Days 2, 3 & 4. Each session will cover three inter-related topics.

Day 1
• Is consulting right for me?
• My competitive edge
• Consultants’ marketing secrets

Day 2
• Setting up shop
• Price-setting methods & calculating fees
• Managing money

Day 3
• Business planning
• Tracking time
• Writing proposals

Day 4
• Understanding contracts
• Managing risk
• Survival Skills
• Wrap up

Presenter: Gail Barrington is a senior evaluation advisor and well-known Canadian program evaluator, trainer and writer. She has more than 25 years of experience running her own consulting practice, Barrington Research Group, Inc., and has conducted over 130 program evaluation and applied research studies. Her recent book, Consulting Start up & Management: A Guide for Evaluators & Applied Researchers, (SAGE, 2012) is based on her consulting experience. In 2008, she won the Canadian Evaluation Society award for her Contribution to Evaluation in Canada. She is a Credentialed Evaluator, a Certified Management Consultant, and was recently named to the Dynamic Dozen, the top-rated presenters and trainers at the American Evaluation Association.

Register: https://www.eval.org/webinar_reg/Registrationtop.asp 
Last day to register is Monday January 28 

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