1. What are the skills needed for assessing network impact? NNF COP: Feb 8, 2011 Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0

3. What roles might network evaluators play?

4. What skills are required to do this work?

5. What baseline knowledge of networks is needed?

8. Emotional intelligence

9. Communication

10. Capability building

11. Personal awareness of role / position / influence in the network

12. Ability to test and challenge assumptions

13. Fluency in multiple methods

14. Ability to assess at both the macro and micro levels

15. Ability to capture both expected and unexpected outcomes

16. Knowledge of networks, and/or knowledge of complex systemsHow does this compare to traditional evaluation skills?

18. Network weaving

19. Network metrics

20. Characteristics of healthy networks and how this relates to lifecycle stage

21. Network impact

22. Networks as a means towards ends, and as an end in themselves

23. Social network analysis (?)How important is this knowledge – and how important is it vs. other skills?