Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization. This is what enabled me when I got the opportunity to leave that nonprofit and grab my dream job at Walt Disney World as an internal consultant, why I was able to get, again, some of the more strategic projects that were available.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization. This is what enabled me when I got the opportunity to leave that nonprofit and grab my dream job at Walt Disney World as an internal consultant, why I was able to get, again, some of the more strategic projects that were available.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

All systems operate on a steady-state called homeostasis and they operate within norms and standards. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. There is a set performance level and gaining entry, as an outsider is tough because systems filter what’s plausible and realistic to them and who is not.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

It helps the client know the true costs in successfully operating his or her organization. ” Is it decreased employee turnover, increased profit or successful operation of a technical system? Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

For example, say I’m working with a team of people representing a bottling operation in a brewery, and the team has figured out how to redesign the bottling operation to reduce costs, simplify the process, and increase production. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. I love that type of project.”. “On

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Yet it is extremely important that this interface be workable because developments are not relevant until they find their way into operations. An operation is charted to preserve the status quo, the current thinking and methods. Operations are based in control.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They operate from self-evaluated standards. I am sure we have all seen groups operate from these various stages, or plateaus. We can observe groups operating at various stages of moral development in their assumptions and behaviors. The conscious operate from a self-evaluated set of standards. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some people assert that these consultants focus mostly on “soft” skills regarding peoples’ beliefs, feelings and perceptions, and less on “hard” skills regarding organizational structures, processes and operations. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. This author follows the latter assertion.). Facilitation.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It knew it had to act fast, so top leaders began by challenging major assumptions about how they operated. In the two months post-launch, Droid sales even outpaced the iPhone’s launch numbers. The CEO and COO of a multisite nonprofit were rolling out a new strategy started with tight, rules-laden processes and playbooks.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

AUGUST 16, 2010

These systems operate within boundaries subjected to the whims of environmental changes such as: economic crises, increased competitive threats and industry shifts. The human system operates the technology. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Customers often demand new and different things.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

One assistant VP I worked with was correct about what needed to be accomplished, but he was driven to “get it over with” and “put it behind” him, and often operated unilaterally to get things done. A VP at a nonprofit client had a history of making decisions hastily and without sufficient data.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 26, 2010

The systems vantage point is the whole operation within its environment operating within a steady state, which keeps it viable. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Input, transformation and output: this is basic process-task in the architecture of systems. Consulting and Organizational Development.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

You would extend your physical and mental antennae to not miss a cue that might be a clue as to how to operate successfully as a stranger in a strange land. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. It would help you to get clear about who you are and who you are not. It would teach you a lot about yourself.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. Sourcing for Commitment. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S.,

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

There are certain types of general knowledge that would likely be the same, especially: a) General frameworks from which to develop and/or operate systems, for example, performance management systems, financial systems or marketing systems. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

With recent emphasis on the importance of using a highly facilitative and collaborative leadership style when guiding change, leaders are beginning to operate more like internal consultants for change then ever before. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. However, that perception is changing. Facilitation.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before starting Real Board Solutions, Terry was both an accountant and an operations/sales manager. For the past 19 years, Terry Clark has been the President of Real Board Solutions, offering mentoring and coaching services for all non-profits and charity organizations.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 10, 2010

The design is similar to creating and operating a “marching organization.” Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. From Vertical to Horizontal By Jim Smith on May 10, 2010. We live in traditional organizations that are functional and vertically managed. A control structure reinforces the hierarchy of power.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Carl Jung (1875-1971) postulated the power of archetypes operating in the human psyche and emphasized the role of the Shadow , those aspects of who we are that have not yet been integrated. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Leadership.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And because of years of sales history, you can be reasonably certain that you will be successful: You will sell roughly the number of cars you expected to. In 2014 the Taproot Foundation wanted to create a digital service that would connect nonprofit organizations with skilled professionals who wanted to donate their services.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

Sometimes consulting is operating in a house of mirrors. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. What is me and what is not me are important to differentiate. Consulting and Organizational Development. Crisis Management. Customer Service. Facilitation. Free Management Library Blogs. Human Resources. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 30, 2012

Many practitioners might assert that they just operate by “gut feel” – they intuitively sense the situation, how to work with their clients, and what should occur as a result. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Can you explain them? Are they associated with any theory(s)? What’s Wrong With That?

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

Too often otherwise good sales reps fail because they just haven’t learned to stop talking and start listening. The objective of basic sales questions is to identify what your prospect actually wants. Operating in this manner, you will no longer feel a need to shoehorn all the features, bells and whistles into the conversation.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Published articles are high-level sales tools. Retirement benefits thoughtleader Dan Cassidy makes it a practice to show up at every sales meeting with a briefcase filled with reprints of his many published articles. Sales of your book increase as a result. Publishing articles can lead actually WRITING to a book!

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. This is the first blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Introduction to this Blog Series. In our work as OD practitioners, whose shoulders are we standing on? Crisis Management.

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