Exploring our Impostor Syndrome
Dear evaluators or evaluation-related colleagues, please answer these questions to better understand our experience with feeling inadequate while practicing evaluation, causes and potential solutions:
1.
Have you ever felt the impostor syndrome (doubting of your accomplishments and feel a constant fear of being exposed as a “fraud”)?
No, I have never felt like that
I used to in the past, but not anymore
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
2.
What do you think triggers that feeling of impostor syndrome in you?
Working with new people
Speaking in public
New contracts (new people, new program, new organizations)
Doing something I have never done before
Being younger than others
Being older than others
Structural criteria and norms of how authority looks and sounds like
N/A, I've never felt it
Other (please specify)
3.
If you have overcome it, what do you think made you stop feeling like that way? Check all that apply
Age
Experience
Positive feedback
Better self-steam
Knowing the people I work with
None of these; I still feel it
Other (please specify)
4.
Do you want to share any advice of what makes you feel more empowered in your work?
5.
Do you identify as (choose the one that describes you best):
Evaluator
Programme manager
Evaluation commissioner
Researcher
Other (please specify)
6.
Do you identify as:
Woman
Man
Prefer not to answer
Prefer to describe:
7.
What is your age?
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60+
Many thanks for your time!
See you in AEA365 soon :-)