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Consulting &
Facilitation
The following
is a listing of some of ESC's general consulting and facilitation services:
STRATEGIC
PLANNING:
Envisioning
the Future and Anticipating Change
Do you need
to:
- React
effectively to funding changes?
- Change
direction to meet new needs?
- Set goals
for the years ahead?
- Effectively
re-deploy staff resources?
- Re-examine
the organization's mission?
- Set
priorities in addressing agency's problems?
- Understand
environmental factors affecting the future?
- Plan for
new programs and services?
- Explore
new leadership resources?
We offer
solutions by helping to:
- Determine
stakeholders' views and commitment
- Explore
potential collaborative opportunities
- Create
strategies for new ventures
- Enlist new
resources
- Identify
and resolve strategic issues
- Develop
consensus on goals, objectives and indicators of success
- Facilitate
open communication about directions
- Develop
tools for measuring effectiveness
- Establish
evaluation procedures
- Establish
an action timeline for implementing plans
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BOARD
DEVELOPMENT: Providing the
Critical Resources for Success
Do you need
to:
- Attract
quality Board members?
- Get Board
members involved in fundraising?
- Focus the
Board on the big picture and not on management?
- Create the
right structure for busy people?
- Conduct
effective Board/committee meetings?
- Develop
Bylaws/Board manual?
- Help the
Board understand Board and staff roles?
- Develop
effective orientation/education programs?
- Help the
Board understand the financial operation?
We offer
solutions by helping to:
- Assess
Board's need for new members
- Attract
quality Board members
- Utilize
Board access to funders
- Establish
systems for financial control
- Develop a
Board manual
- Clarify
staff/Board roles and responsibilities
- Write an
effective mission statement
- Develop a
strategic plan for internal development and marketing
- Create a
Board member orientation or training program
- Make Board
meetings more productive
- Establish
evaluation procedures
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HUMAN
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Maximizing the
potential of Staff and Volunteers
Do you need
to:
- Meet the
demand for more services with the same or fewer staff?
- Attract
and effectively utilize volunteers?
- Motivate
overworked staff?
- Develop
compensation packages with shrinking resources?
- Create
effective job descriptions and staff manual?
- Help staff
with management skills?
- Develop
effective management tools?
- Define the
roles/responsibilities for staff and Board?
- Update
your personnel policies manual?
We offer
solutions by helping to:
- Create
tools for higher productivity
- Develop
plans for aggressive recruitment and use of volunteers
- Define job
descriptions and manuals for staff and Board
- Establish
an effective office management program
- Guide in
staff recruitment, screening and hiring
- Review
compensation and benefits packages
- Develop
team methods to help further collaborative efforts
- Assess
your needs and make personnel recommendations
- Serve as
an honest broker to resolve issues
- Produce an
up-to-date personnel manual
- Respond to
change and challenges
- Evaluate
current office systems
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COMMUNICATIONS
and PUBLIC RELATIONS: Getting
the Message Out for More Effective Communications, PR, Marketing and
Promotion
Do you need
to:
- Expose
foundations/corporations and individuals to your mission?
- Establish
media contacts for events and feature articles?
- Compete
more successfully for resources?
- Overcome
the feeling that you are "the best kept secret in
town"?
- Develop
new clients?
- Attract
volunteers who are committed to the cause?
- Determine
what new services and programs can increase your clientele?
- Project a
coherent message to clients and communities?
- Enhance
your agency publications?
We offer
solutions by helping to:
- Develop
marketing strategies
- Enhance
your agency's image
- Expand
your client base
- Stretch
your resources
- Strategize
for more effective fundraising
- Conduct
research to evaluate future programs and markets
- Cultivate
media contacts
- Mobilize
your Board for better public relations efforts
- Network
for community resources
- Improve
community awareness
- Promote
new projects
- Create
more effective newsletters and brochures
- Maximize
the impact of special events
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To become a
client, please fill out our Request for
Assistance form, or contact Nancy Long at execdir@escwa.org
or by phone at (206) 682-6704.
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