Monitoring the strategic impact of your revitalization initiatives at Aitkin is essential to making change stick! For many of us, there’s nothing more satisfying than seeing and sharing concrete evidence that our efforts are paying off.

This guide is designed to help you develop metrics around the fruits of your labor, including indicators of increased engagement, well-being, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Some of this evidence can be accessed in non-intrusive ways, such as analyzing data that is already collected and available at Aitkin County. Other evidence will require new forms of data collection such as brief surveys, interviews, and focus groups.