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Governance for the 21st century
 
     
 
 
 
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Governance Retooling

Business methods and structures for the 21st century...

 

Modern governance can help you achieve the ideal combination of progressive leadership and results-driven business practices.

 

We can show you how to recast governance in ways that increase volunteer participation and simultaneously reduce the size and number of formal governing bodies.

 

We’ll work with you on reshaping not just the governing structure but the business processes used within it.  And we'll help your leadership see how modern governance facilitates organizational results, focusing on the strategic for direction and on outcomes for oversight.

 

Strategic Planning

Maximizing achievement...

 

Truly effective strategic planning is not an event; it is an ongoing process of review, assessment and prioritization in terms of external forces and internal realities.  It should project from a future view to redirect, reprioritize and continually adjust action for mission relevance and member needs.  The best strategic plans also drive the annual operating plan and budget.

 

Our Strategic Planning Service Components

  • Pre-planning, futures visioning

  • Condition and needs assessment

  • Facilitated plan creation or updates

  • Strategic assessments for:

    • Objective outcomes evaluation

    • Fresh approaches

  • Planning system design - a process for:

    • Integrating strategic and operating plans

    • Performance measuring and reporting

    • Plan revisions and updates

 

Visioning

Shaping the future...

 

Why settle for predicting a likely future when you could create a desirable one?  A vision should be a picture of the future you intend to build, not one you think you're stuck with.  We see visioning as an outcomes-oriented process that moves the organization toward a future of its own creation.

 

Our Visioning Service Components

Retreat and workshop facilitation to:

  • Create the vision

  • Segment the vision into key components

  • Analyze and prioritize vision components

  • Identify new activities to further the vision

  • Facilitate vision-to-action

Visioning is best conducted prior to or in conjunction with strategic planning.

 

 Member Needs and Satisfaction Assessments

Our clients tell us that our assessment reports are 'the best' because we go beyond simply presenting information.  Our experience with hundreds of association clients positions us uniquely to assess the implications of the research findings.  We'll provide you with useful insights about strategic implications - highlighting directional pointers, progress opportunities and improvement options.

  • Assess and rank the challenges to the industry or profession

  • Test agreement with direction, new ideas

  • Evaluate benefits and services recognition

  • Test usage and satisfaction levels

  • Quantify the perceived value of services

  • Test market new ideas

  • Check price tolerance

  • Explore perceptions about

    • The profession or industry

    • The association itself

 

 

Leadership Development

Maximizing volunteer achievement...

Member volunteer effectiveness is the association's most important resource.  Your volunteer leaders need to be well armed with skills like these:

  • Role and accountability perspectives

  • Big picture, strategic thinking, thought leadership

  • Reality based decision making

  • Communicating to present, inspire, shape opinion

Leadership training modes...

  • Interactive context and skills content for:

    • Boards

    • Delegates, councils, committees

    • Chapter and component leaders

    • Task forces and workgroups

  • Joint programs for volunteers and staff

  • Workshops for staff professional development

  • Presentations customized for your needs