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• CESBC Interactive Webinar: Krazy Glue Messaging ~ Making Your Evaluation and Research Findings Stick

  • When
    28 Oct 2025
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    10:00 - 12:00
  • Location
    Zoom

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  CESBC Interactive Webinar: Krazy Glue Messaging ~ Making Your Evaluation and Research Findings Stick presented by Kylie Hutchison.
  

  As evaluators, people need our evidence more than ever nowadays. But with so much going on, they have even less bandwidth to absorb the results we give them. The solution? Sticky messaging!

  The evaluation profession has wholeheartedly embraced smaller and more innovative forms of reporting over the years such as infographics and two-page briefs. However, these shorter forms of communication require us to condense our extensive findings into much less content. We also need to identify and make our key messages “sticky” in order to ensure that busy decision-makers are able to understand, recall, and act on our key findings when the time comes.

  Join us for a fun and interactive webinar looking at what makes a key message “sticky” and leave feeling inspired to try something new!

  Learning Outcomes

  At the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • explain the benefits of using sticky messaging
  • describe the steps to isolate key messages from your results
  • list ways to make these key messages stickier for intended users.

  Presenter

  Kylie Hutchinson is a credentialed evaluator and consultant to non-profits with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. She has over 30 years’ experience specializing in the areas of evaluation, strategic planning, and board governance, and is known for her fun and engaging webinars. In 2020, she received the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada award. Kylie is the author of three books on program planning and evaluation: Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Securing Your Program’s Sustainability, A Short Primer on Innovative Evaluation Reporting, and the edited collection, Evaluation Failures: Evaluators Share 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned.

  Date: October 28, 2025

  Time: 10:00 - 12:00 am PT

  Location: Zoom meeting - link will be provided on registration

  Cost: $10 for CES members, $15 for non-members

  
  Member at Large - Professsional Development:
  Reanna Clark CESBC.PD@gmail.com

  
  

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• SAVE THE DATE: CESBC 2025 Evaluation Conference

  • When
    21 Nov 2025
  •  
    07:45 - 16:00
  • Location
    SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

   

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  CESBC 2025 Evaluation Conference

  Unfolding the Evaluation Journey
  

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  Where: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

  When: Friday, November 21, 2025

  Time: Registration open: 7:45am, Conference: 8:45am to 4:00pm, Reception and Networking: 4pm-4:45pm, AGM: 4:45pm-5:45pm [TBD]

  Breakfast and Lunch: Provided (dietary restrictions accommodated). 

  Overview

  CESBC is excited to announce the 2025 annual one-day conference, dedicated to continuing our mission of bringing meaningful learning and deeper growth to the BC evaluation community. Through engaging and interactive presentations, workshops, and networking activities, we aim to foster an environment for collaborative knowledge exchange.

  This year's conference invites participants to approach evaluation as a path filled with opportunities to learn, adapt, and deepen our understanding of the practice and its impact. This conference is an opportunity to share those experiences — to highlight successes, explore emerging questions, and uncover new possibilities together. We will also reflect on how our evaluation practices and skills evolve over time, how we make meaning amid complexity, and how diverse perspectives shape and guide our evaluation journey

  The 2025 conference theme will be explored across three streams, representing different stages of an evaluation. We also strongly encourage thoughtful integration and discussion of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in sessions across all streams.

  1. Planning to Implementation

  2. Approaches, Methods, and Analyses

  3. Knowledge Translation

  The conference is an opportunity to share experiences from our work, bring forward ideas, and present questions and challenges for discussion with the BC evaluation community.

  We look forward to your participation! 

  The Conference Organizers

  The conference is brought to you by the members and volunteers of the BC chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society. CESBC is a chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES), the professional organization for evaluation professionals, students, academics and users of evaluation (such as managers, program staff and planners). CESBC is a member funded voluntary organization. We work to provide the evaluation community in British Columbia with learning opportunities, networking and resources. We are happy to take advice and organize events that the community suggests.

  Interested in volunteering?

  The conference would not be possible every year without the support of our wonderful volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering with this year’s conference, please contact CESBC.Conference@gmail.com. There will be opportunities over the next several months, and on the day of the event.

  For all enquiries please email: CESBC.Conference@gmail.com

  

  
  

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