Guiding and Managing Organizations Effectively

 

Determining Overlaps, Duplications and Gaps in Community Development Programs and Projects
Using our Insights Program to Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Searching for and Selecting the Chief Paid Executive
(Re) Organizing Community-based Development Organizations
Organizing Self-Directed Fundraising Campaigns
Identifying and Resolving Issues
Setting Priorities Amid Differing or Competing Agendas


   

Determining Overlaps, Duplications and Gaps in Community Development Programs and Projects
We can assist your community in compiling an inventory of community and economic development programming provided by multiple development groups and organizations. Our facilitated assessment determines overlapping functions or beneficiaries, duplications of similar-purpose programming, and gaps in needed programs and projects. We then provide your community with recommendations and next steps for enhancing cooperation and collaboration among your development entities, such as Chambers, economic development organizations, and Main Street organizations.

Benefits:

  • Reducing duplication of economic and community development services and programs
  • Uniting and focusing the key strengths of multiple organizations for increased presence and punch
  • Identifying new ways for working together or for making referrals
  • Increasing awareness and documentation of the numerous economic development programs and services

   

Using our Insights Program to Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Our Insights Program provides a full assessment of your economic development organization using an on-site review team that provides your leadership with independent expert feedback as to your organization's operations, structure and procedures. The purpose of our assessment is to enable you and your leadership to improve your organization's programming and to enhance business/community support of for what you do.

Benefits:

  • Having knowledgeable and experienced certified economic development professionals work to provide a meaningful and useable evaluation of your organization's structure and functions

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Searching for and Selecting the Chief Paid Executive
We assist your organization's board of directors (and staff) with an executive director search and selection process by recommending specific search steps your organization should take. By developing, in full collaboration with your leadership, the selection criteria to apply in making the selection decision, the hiring process should be simplified. In addition to recommending a step-by-step process, we can also provide a proposed job description and useful tools to manage the search efforts. We can, at your option, also provide management of the entire search and selection process that will permit your leadership to concentrate on making the "right" hiring decision.

Benefits:

  • EXCELLerating your search and selection process by using the expertise we bring to guide and direct your efforts

   

(Re) Organizing Community-based Development Organizations
We offer custom-designed decision-making sessions for economic development organizations regarding organizational mergers or spin-offs to achieve strategic priorities. Our staff members, who have both reported to boards and served on boards, provide an independent review of existing development entities and assist with the development of a merger or spin-off process plan-of-action. We include a comprehensive analysis and recommendations directed toward the goals of maximizing effectiveness and efficiency of your organizational structure, networking and programming for economic development implementation.

We also strive to make "reorganization" an opportunity rather than a problem. We provide community-based economic development organizations with an independent review of existing management structures, of mission development, priority setting and consensus building processes, and of organizational and staffing structures. We further provide guidance in determining executive staffing needs and in understanding the search and selection process.

Benefits:

  • Gaining an objective, knowledgeable assessment and guidance through potentially turbulent change

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Organizing Self-Directed Fundraising Campaigns

We help your volunteers and other staff members prepare for fundraising efforts for your organization. We help you build a case to support your efforts, train the volunteers who will make the calls, and help create the materials necessary to conduct a successful fund drive. Costs for our assistance vary depending upon your organization's size and the services you are seeking.
Benefits:
  • Obtaining professional fundraising assistance
  • Getting your fund drive off on the right foot regardless of the amount of dollars sought

   

Identifying and Resolving Issues

We guide economic development entities and other community organizations in identifying and resolving issues related to avoiding or overcoming barriers to progress.

Benefits:

  • Surfacing barrier-type questions; clarifying and prioritizing them
  • Resolving key issues through consensus
  • Identifying strategies to move forward and EXCELLerate

   

Setting Priorities amid Differing or Competing Agendas
Organizations and communities frequently face the thorny challenge of blending competing interests. IDM offers an efficient service to produce shared, consensus-based priorities. Through fair, focused group decision making, practical session design and IDM's unbiased facilitation, our approach combines what individuals personally know and care about in order to produce a set of priorities the group is able to care strongly about and support.


Benefit:

  • Establishing new common ground and commitment

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