Strategic Nonprofit Performance Assessment

Welcome to your first lessons on performance assessment! Performance assessment can be a tremendous tool for organizational growth, and in our nonprofits it is a means of connecting our people to our mission in a meaningful way.

In the first series of lessons on performance assessment, we’ll take a look at what performance assessment is (and isn’t!), and consider why it matters. You’ll have the opportunity to explore five core skills to support effective assessment practices. We’ll wrap up our learning here with a look at how to spot and measure effective performance assessment practices.

Let’s jump in with our first lesson, “What is performance assessment?”

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump in on an overview of what performance assessment is and what it looks like in your non-profit.

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Now that you have some basics about staff performance assessment, let's take a look at why it matters.

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In this lesson, we'll look at the five skills needed to support performance assessment. Remember: skills can be learned, practiced, and developed over time, so if you feel that you have a little (or a lot of!) room for improvement, know that you're on the right track!

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In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on what effective performance assessment looks like, and how can we measure it.

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In this current course, we'll explore the many ways that performance assessment effectiveness can be understood and measured.

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Welcome to our silver lessons on performance assessment! Now that we have explored what performance assessment is, why it matters, and the skills needed to build effective assessment practices, we’ll now look to put this new knowledge into practice.

In our next three courses we will take a look at how you can activate and lead performance assessment best practices in your nonprofit, and will also explore how goal-setting can help you move from good to great in this important capacity area.

In the lessons to come, we’ll be referencing the book, “An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization.” If you find the material that we cover in the silver badge courses, you’ll likely enjoy picking up a copy of this book or other titles by the authors.

Let’s jump in on our next lesson, “Activating your own Staff Performance Efforts.”

*Remember that a transcript of all audio is available for download below on the lessons below, and you can always turn on closed-captions on the video settings above.

Let’s start with how to activate our staff performance abilities and go beyond the focused skill-building we talked about in our bronze lessons. We’ll look at more deeply exploring your motives for improvement, managing innovation, and understanding others.

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Now that we have a little bit of foundation in your staff performance assessment efforts, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

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In this lesson, we'll look at how to put staff performance assessment strategies into practice with a look at how to build and enhance it in your nonprofit.

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In our consideration of how to build up your own capacity in developing and supporting staff performance assessment abilities at your nonprofit, we’re going to consider the principles behind goal-setting.

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Setting goals to improve your nonprofit’s overall staff performance assessment efforts looks and feels different than setting goals as an individual.

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Welcome to your gold badge lessons on performance assessment! In this third and final series of lessons on this topic, we’ll round out your knowledge and tools in a way that will help you personally improve your evaluation skills with an emphasis on getting motivated and putting your new knowledge into practice.

We’ll begin by exploring some of the motivational concepts that relate to adult development and motivational triggers.

We’ll then review all that we’ve learned in this capacity area, which will prepare you for the final exercise of this topic. In this final exercise, you’ll develop a personal learning plan that will chart your own growth path for putting all you’ve learned into practice.

Let’s start off with a look at how you can get personally motivated about performance assessment activities.

Let’s jump in!

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll look at how motivation can be supported in building staff performance assessment efforts in your organization.

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In this lesson, we're going to discuss how we can inspire others to get personally motivated about nonprofit performance assessment efforts, especially those who may be resistant.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

In this final teaching lesson on staff performance assessment, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.