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CHAPTER FIVE

Implement Changes and Share Lessons Learned

Ultimately, evaluation findings need to be put to use, or else the resources and time that were invested in the evaluation were not used wisely. In some cases, it makes sense to use evaluation findings at the end of an initiative to guide future directions. In other cases, particularly in longer-term, more complex initiatives (for instance, leadership culture change), evaluation data can and should be used in every stage to test hypotheses about what is working to make progress toward desired outcomes and what is not.

One possible outcome of a leadership-development initiative is that it has the impact stakeholders and participants have expected and hoped for. In that case, no remedial ...

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