The Rensselaerville Institute (TRI) is our outcome partner in helping you—and us— better define, track, verify, and report results from projects in which we invest. The articles and tools here are frequently used by our TRI presenters, including Hal Williams.

1. The Rensselaerville Institute Quotes

2. “Result Card” An example of how one non-profit funded in a 20 page narrative of what it did and one short page on what it achieved.

3. “Describing Work…The Job vs. The Results” Why and how result descriptions beat job descriptions and how to write and use them.

4. “Sparkplug Leaders” The five characteristics that help predict success for project and organizational leaders and managers—and how to define and increase their presence in your staff.

5. “Energy in Organizations” A look at a critical element of personal and organizational life rarely considered but hugely consequential to success. Includes and “energy audit” for your use.

6. “Informing vs. Persuading” What business are you? Most non-profits want people to do something with information. Their business is persuasion and it only begins with information.

7. “Collaboration vs. The Other C Words” The power of seeing that communication, coordination, cooperation manage differences to agreement while collaboration harness differences to create new solutions.

8. Tracking for Results from Workshops and Training  A sequence of steps you can take to define, track & verify results from workshops and training activities.