Creative & Credible Training

Creative Evaluation

Harness creativity to deliver rich, enjoyable and meaningful evaluation

An online three-workshop programme:

Thursday 13th March, 20th March and 27th March 2025, from 10am – 12.30pm

(Discount of £75 available for freelancer and self-funding individuals. Please email support@janewillis.co.uk for a coupon code).

“I will take away lots of creative ideas and tools for ways in which to evaluate creatively.”

November 2023 Creative Evaluation training participant

Are you frustrated with traditional evaluation methods?

Do you feel your evaluation tools don’t reflect the creative nature of your work?

Are you finding it hard to engage participants in evaluation?

Do you get poor response rates from questionnaires?

Building on the Creative and Credible approach to evaluation, this course provides participants with the knowledge, skills and confidence to evaluate creatively as well as credibly.

Over the course of three interactive workshops, we will look at ways in which we can better harness creativity to generate appropriate, relevant, meaningful evaluations. 

You will discover how to evaluate in ways that:

  • are enjoyable and rewarding for participants,

  • generate improved response rates, and

  • deliver richer and more meaningful data.

Working collaboratively, we will co-produce creative solutions to real-world scenarios. Sharing ideas and practice, we will explore ways in which creativity can reinvigorate existing evaluation methods including questionnaires, focus groups, feedback and monitoring.

To book a place a place, you can choose to pay by card or by invoice.

“I enjoyed having the chance to discuss ideas with others and seeing creative methods in practice.”

November 2023 Creative Evaluation training participant

Programme Outline

Workshop One:
Defining and Understanding Creative Evaluation

  • Demystifying Evaluation

  • Exploring Creative Evaluation

  • Case Study of a Creative Evaluation Tool  

Workshop Two:
Creative Evaluation in Practice 

  • Sharing Experience of Creative Evaluation

  • Exploring Creative Tools

  • Reimagining the Tired and Tested

Workshop Three:
Analysing, Reporting and Disseminating Creative Evaluation

  • A Creative Evaluation Case Study

  • Analyzing Creative Data

  • Applying Creativity across the Evaluation Cycle

  • Ground Rules and Good Practice

“I enjoyed the Call and Response interactive elements of the training, such as working with others, or answering questions - that was validating and felt like, ‘Ah, I'm doing the work of designing creative evaluation methods.’”

November 2023 Creative Evaluation training participant

The Details

  • These workshops will run on Thursday 13th, 20th and 27th March 10am – 12.30pm.

  • You should aim to attend all three workshops, which will be held live on Zoom. 

  • Numbers are limited so there will be space for discussion and sharing.

  • A reading list and handouts will be sent by email before each session so that you can print anything you might want to refer to.

  • The full cost is £225 for three workshops and all handouts. We offer a £75 discount for freelancers and self-funding individuals. Please email support@janewillis.co.uk and we’ll send you a coupon code to book.

Feedback from past participants…

  • "[The training has] already had an impact! We are currently planning our events for next quarter, and I've started conversations around evaluation right at the planning stage. It’s given me lots of ideas to share with the team and the wider department."

    Previous course particpant

  • "This is probably the first CPD course I have ever personally funded (as I am now freelance). It was really worth the investment in time and [money]. And it was no small feat to keep the group so engaged and enthusiastic over three weeks!"

    Previous course participant

  • "Thanks so much for a wonderful course. The sessions were full of information without feeling overwhelming, I left each one full of ideas. I'm looking forward to embedding a more creative approach to evaluation across my programme."

    Previous course participant

  • "It has helped me as a senior leader to understand the on the ground way that evaluation might need to adapt."

    Previous course participant

  • “Jane’s presentation style is relaxed, informative and friendly. I felt included at every stage and was given ample opportunity to comment/feedback my views and experiences.”

    Previous course particpant

To book a place a place, you can choose to pay by card or by invoice.

FAQs

  • These workshops will take place on Zoom. A link to take part will be sent to you in advance of each workshop starting.

  • You will need access to a computer or laptop with an internet connection, camera and microphone. Headphones can be helpful to ensure clarity and privacy, but are not essential. A wired ethernet connection will work better than Wi-Fi.

  • Ideally, you will attend all three workshops. However, if you have to miss a workshop for any reason, I will ask the group if they are happy to have the session recorded so that I can share this with you afterwards.

  • The core programme consists of three 2.5 hour workshops. It is entirely up to you how much extra time you set aside outside of these workshops. There is no compulsory reading or homework. However, you may wish to read around the subject or take half an hour to reflect and embed your learning each week. Or, if you are involved in planning and delivering an evaluation, you may want to set aside time to put your learning into practice.

  • I am likely to run the programme again in 2025, if there is demand. Please email me if you would like to be notified of future dates.

  • We offer a ￡75 discount for freelancers and self-funding individuals. Please email support@janewillis.co.uk and we’ll provide you with a coupon code.

  • If, for any reason, you are unable to attend and need to cancel your place, I offer a full refund up to 2 weeks or 10 working days before the start of the programme if I am able to sell your place to someone else.

    If I am unable to sell your place during this 10 day period, rather than offer a full refund, I will offer you a credit note towards a future course or workshop of your choice, or one-to-one mentoring with me.

    If you are unable to attend and are not able to notify me within this 10-day period, and therefore do not qualify for a refund or credit note, I will (if other course participants agree) record the course for you so that you can watch it in your own time.

    If I cancel the programme for any reason, I will refund any fees you have paid in their entirety.

  • By booking, you agree that we may collect and store personal information about you and your interactions with us for the purposes of running this programme. This includes: your personal contact details; details of your booking and booking history, including any access needs you have told us about; records of payments (not including credit/debit cards numbers, etc.); any correspondence and any other information we need to keep in order to administer your booking. All personal information is kept securely. We will use this information to communicate with you about your booking and we may, unless you tell us otherwise, communicate with you occasionally about our work and other courses and support that we offer. We never share or sell information about our course participants with any third party, either in aggregate or in individual form.

“It was a fantastic course. Jane was so articulate and had a great supportive energy, and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone approaching these topics.”

Previous course particpant