Independent Magazine - Issue 6, 2023

This edition moves into the realm of brain-science, which helps us to focus on fundamental questions of receptivity and to look at how we engage with performance feedback. Select highlights include understanding emotional intelligence as the (missing) link between evaluators and management; demystifying evaluation through communication and engagement; reporting positive changes achieved in G5 Sahel countries; moving beyond what is right or wrong; looking at agricultural innovations introduced in Cuba; appreciating that independence remains an unmovable bedrock of the evaluation function; and focusing on how rural enterprise development has supported increased household incomes and employment creation.