You're evaluating your outreach strategies. How do you determine if your feedback mechanisms are effective?

In evaluating the effectiveness of your strategies, it's important to gather data--quantitative and qualitative--from multiple sources.

One thing I've found helpful to do before gathering data is to work backward from the metrics you're using to assess impact to identify which data is highest priority to collect - and then seek out likely sources for that data. It's possible that one or more community or sector partners has that data or knows how to get it. Partnerships go a long way toward larger sample size or access to key demographic segments that may be more difficult to access otherwise.

Effective feedback mechanisms make it easy for participants to respond conveniently and inform honestly. They also produce the type of feedback that can be applied in ways that are meaningful and impactful. Make sure you’re using the type of feedback questions, locations, systems and follow-up that allows participants to know how you will or have used their feedback consistently, otherwise their feedback will be limited. If your feedback mechanisms are effective you will have consistent access to the type of insight you can use to improve your outreach process and approach before and during the project.

Il est primordial d'analyser la qualité et la quantité des retours re?us, de vérifier la diversité des sources de rétroaction, d'évaluer la rapidité et la pertinence des réponses obtenues, de mesurer l'impact des modifications apportées suite aux retours, et de demander des évaluations directes sur le processus de rétroaction.

In my experience, validated survey tools increase the probability of high quality feedback. Adequately explicit prompts encourage respondents to concentrate on the specific area for feedback that is desired, including prompting for suggestions on how to improve and what level of detail is desired. On the other hand, overly narrow prompts can be limiting, so balance is essential.

The feedback is useful we also want to investigate the extent and scope of the feedback that we missed out the diversity of this assessment impact. It depends on the target that we desire to reach,such as gender, age,education, culture, belief system,and social economic. The samples of the feedback can only reliable when we formed the questions comprehensive enough to cover the subjects who could represent the data accurately and broadly.

In my experience engagement with the participants is so important because: - Everyone likes to be heard and feel part of something so they'll always try to add up some value to what you are asking for. - When you complement quantitive data collected with personal thoughts and different points of view your analysis is enriched.

Pen and paper feed back is like black and white TV,whereas face to face engaging with the public is like colour TV. We can notice how they expressed both verbally and body language. These extra dimensions increase the kind of data we would like to access for further adjustments to achieve the satisfaction of our consumers. The outcomes of our surveys would demonstrate of the demand of the users accurately rather than assumed what they wrote or ticked which can be ambiguous to both the givers and the interpreters of the data collected.

One thing I've found helpful in engaging directly while I was a facilitator is making sure everyone is heard and seen. Also stating there is no wrong or right answer when engaging in topics to start up a robust conversation.

My pro tips are as follows: 1. Ask everyone for feedback 2. Ask the same people again for constructive feedback if you didn’t get it at first (sometimes people are more hesitant to give this unless they know you’re open to it). 3. This is the MOST IMPORTANT- every piece of feedback isn’t not something you need to implement, it is data. You are allowed to accept some advice and save the rest in your pocket. 4. Don’t take feedback too personally.