Performance Evaluation: Proven Approaches for Improving Program and Organizational Performance

RECOMMENDATIONS

While open communication about the process and the discoveries is desirable, the evaluator should avoid making premature, unsubstantiated judgments about what these discoveries mean or how to fix apparent problems. Recommendations are precisely about how to get to the ends you want and require. You can certainly offer a preliminary set of recommendations based on your expertise, research, and experience; however, recommendations are a perfectly appropriate topic to develop in conjunction with stakeholders. In fact, the likelihood that solutions that stakeholders come up with will be implemented is significantly higher than the likelihood that solutions you come up with will be implemented. Although people sometimes have a difficult ...