Empowering Humanitarian Efforts: The Evolution and Impact of Reduced Access Analysis for Monitoring and Adaptive Management (RAAM) Strategies in NGO Operations

Introduction to RAAM Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) face an increasing problem in the dynamic field of global humanitarian and development work: working in locations with restricted access. Traditional methods of program implementation and monitoring face particular challenges in these places, which are generally characterized by difficult geographical locations, unstable political environments, or social limitations. As a … More Empowering Humanitarian Efforts: The Evolution and Impact of Reduced Access Analysis for Monitoring and Adaptive Management (RAAM) Strategies in NGO Operations

How to Write Your Reports in PowerPoint Instead of in Word: Nine Tips for Getting Started

Data work spans the gamut from collecting satisfaction insights to observing preschool kids in our nature play programming. With everything done, we aim to help our staff improve their programs and our client’s experience. It’s important for us to disseminate our findings in ways that make our stakeholders (mainly internal staff) want to dig in and explore. … More How to Write Your Reports in PowerPoint Instead of in Word: Nine Tips for Getting Started

Creative Feedback

Managers Often Resent Giving Corrective Feedback Feedback is a central component of the manager-employee relationship. Often, managers are reluctant resent giving corrective (or negative) feedback. They assume employee defensiveness and fear that negative feedback will offend the employee and thus affect their rapport with the employee. Such managers are likely to withhold criticism. They fail … More Creative Feedback