Taking over a complex evaluation project can be a daunting experience, especially when it happens unexpectedly. This article offers practical insights and actionable advice drawn from real-world experience, providing a roadmap for managing a smooth transition.

Discover the insights and outcomes of Three Hive Consulting’s evaluation of their 4-Day Work Week (4DWW) pilot. This article explores the benefits and challenges of the 4DWW, highlighting impacts on work-life balance, productivity, and client relationships, and shares strategies for successful implementation.

In the world of healthcare, effective evaluation is a game-changer, guiding strategic decisions, enhancing patient care, and driving innovation. This article delves into the transformative power of evaluation, showcasing practical advice and real-world examples from Three Hive Consulting. Discover how evaluation can navigate complexities, measure effectiveness, boost accountability, and justify investments, ensuring your healthcare programs excel.

Early in your career, it can be hard to know what field you want to work in, let alone feel confident in finding a job. If you’re thinking that you might want to become an evaluator, or you’re a newish evaluator looking for a job, read on to see what we, at Three Hive Consulting, look for when hiring.

Curious to know what other tools can support your evaluation consultancy? This article, written by Three Hive Consulting Co-Founder Kristy Madsen, will save you the hours of research and provide you with a list of tools to help run your evaluation consultancy.

In this post, we describe how Three Hive Consulting supported the evaluation of a home health monitoring project for patients with chronic conditions.

This post explores how we at Three Hive Consulting worked with a community development initiative to evaluate their activities using social network analysis (SNA). This methodology was used to better understand the relationships and foster collaboration between different individuals, groups, and organizations connected to the initiative.

This post explores how we at Three Hive Consulting worked with REACH Edmonton Council and other agencies to evaluate a unique initiative called Bridging Together. You’ll see how they developed and carried out an evaluation plan that yielded actionable information.

Evaluators are equipped to ask and answer some pretty complex questions. We are not afraid to tackle abstract ideas and make sense of messy data. However, there is one question that can be tough to succinctly answer - what is evaluation?

As independent evaluation consultants, we might find ourselves working in the “gig economy” – that thrilling and perilous world of odd jobs and short-term contracts (and best of all: freedom). Whether or not you participate in the gig economy, key to success for any consultant is branding: it’s how you tell the world who you are and the unique value you offer.

A business process is a set of tasks, including the staff and materials required, that is used again and again to accomplish a goal.

This article is about building and improving processes for your evaluation consulting business.

People have done a lot of thinking about how to run a successful business, and there’s a lot independent evaluation consultants can learn from that body of knowledge. Part 2 in this series is about what evaluation consultants can learn from business management experts.

Being a great evaluator doesn’t necessarily make you a great evaluation consultant – you need to do all the things a professional evaluators does, while also operating a business, finding work, and marketing your brand.

This is an article about the skills and knowledge you need to succeed as an independent evaluation consultant.