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. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money. These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

By: Jennifer LeBlanc Over the summer, we’ve been secretly working on a great project … we’re doing a pro bono brand relaunch for Operation Freedom Paws. The operation is headed up by Mary Cortani , a 2012 CNN Hero. And of course, feel free to connect with Mary and Operation Freedom Paws to support their important work.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Ongoing contributions usually do not come from clients during trainings or when receiving advice from experts. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Every operation is and will remain a collection of regularly repeated processes. The online tool incorporates training notes at the exact points where data is entered, further reducing data entry mistakes and errors in interpretation of data. Tags: continuous improvement processes Nonprofit management efficiency.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

After all, the way your client’s organization has been operating in the past is because one or more people felt strongly that their organization should be operating that way (even though that way they were operating may have caused their problems and is actually what needs to be changed). Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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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. We had career development, organizational development, training, and development. The purpose of this particular training is I want to expand your vision around your role. Positioning Pitfalls (5:58).

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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. We had career development, organizational development, training, and development. The purpose of this particular training is I want to expand your vision around your role. Positioning Pitfalls (5:58).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

A week ago, they told me they decided not to hire me, and would do the facilitator training themselves. 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? Best regards, Erin Evans.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2018

For example, take Talia Milgrom-Elcott , executive director of 100Kin10 , a nonprofit that is spearheading the effort to train 100,000 STEM teachers in 10 years. Whatever form a grand challenge takes, it is an effort to pull an organization out of a purely operational mode and create something truly new.

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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. « Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 5, 2019

After four years of working as a "permanent" full-time Executive Director, launching a start-up nonprofit, and only taking a few short-term consulting gigs from existing clients, I am once again available for new opportunities. Not to forget operating programs at a different location while managing the construction at home base.

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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. Training and Development.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

These consultants often use a wide variety of approaches, tools and techniques to affect various systems and functions across the organization, for example, technical assistance, coaching, facilitation and training. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Types of Consulting Can Overlap.

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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

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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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 26, 2023

They serve in project management roles, accounting roles, training and development roles, logistics roles, health and safety roles, and even roles in culinary procurement and sanitization. The Value of Volunteers to Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations, by nature, often rely heavily on volunteers.

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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. Training and Development. Read more.]. Leadership.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 24, 2021

I've been spending much of my social media time over at Quora, answering questions about nonprofit management and fundraising (and a few questions of a more political nature). What is the best step after setting vision and mission in strategic planning for a nonprofit organization? or, isn't it?) Still, I'm glad when I can help out.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 25, 2006

Liz Heath, executive director of The Nonprofit Center in Tacoma, Washington, has an article in the Tacoma News Tribune advising nonprofits to let future board members in on whole truth. We do the new member and ourselves a disservice when we operate that way.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

Often these internal consultants are in large organizations and from training and development or human resource departments. 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.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

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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. Training and Development. It would help you to get clear about who you are and who you are not. Read more.].

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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. Training and Development. Input, transformation and output: this is basic process-task in the architecture of systems. Read more.].

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most think banks are part of an elite establishment that’s lost sight of the broader mission to serve customers and would prefer they operate more like nonprofits. It no longer makes sense for banks to be run and operated exclusively by career bankers.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 10, 2010

The design is similar to creating and operating a “marching organization.” She cited the Navy Seals as a supreme example of how to create self organizing entities – train the heck out of them, make sure they are clear on the mission and let them go! Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

We need to modernize workforce training, incentivize companies to hire low-income people, and encourage consumers to support those organizations that #GiveWork, not aid. We hire people from below the local poverty line, provide training and other benefits, and directly pay them living wages. to more than $8.50 We are the only U.S.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. This is the second blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Introduction to this Blog Series.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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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. All About Training and Development. This is what bothers me slightly about people calling themselves coaches when they haven’t been trained.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

Sometimes consulting is operating in a house of mirrors. « Previous Next » Meet this Blog’s Co-Hosts Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Read more.].

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Operating from a perspective of poverty, tragedy and crisis. Here's a quick look at six months of strategic, happy, thinking: The old mission statement: "We recruit, train and support volunteer host home families to shelter abused, neglected and at-risk children and youth." An old non-profit. Slogging along. But to what purpose?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

Down the line, automation will allow buses to operate like virtually linked trains at a fraction of the cost of rail. The current strategy is to create what Charles Marohn of the nonprofit Strong Towns calls “stroads.” This would be particularly attractive as suburban conduits to major airports.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 26, 2016

And very few people asked me that question, but when they did, they got to hear me talk about a global nonprofit that I was thinking about working for, an airline, and Bain, and what I thought some of the differences were. ” It could be the approach of the firm toward the client, it could be their training, it could be their culture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Department of Health and Human Services or coordinated by a nonprofit entity. The Oregon registry, for example, was developed by private philanthropy, but its operations are now funded by the state, with a planned endowment in the works. It offers a validated curriculum for training nonphysicians to facilitate advance care planning.

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