Project management skills boost
Your team seems incredibly busy all the time, but you are not making progress on your most important strategic goals.
What you'll achieve
This engagement equips individuals with practical tools and best practices for managing projects effectively. The result is improved organization, timely delivery of goals, and enhanced team leadership skills.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Assess where projects are currently falling down, train staff in practical project management tools, and help the team apply them to live priorities so the learning sticks.
Key deliverables
- Project management training session, planning and tracking templates, roles and responsibilities guidance, risk and timeline tools, follow-up action plan.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Reinventing Organizations
A book on self-managing organisations based on 3 years of research. Part 1 traces how new organisational models have emerged over history. Part 2 is a practical handbook with case examples, such as the Dutch home care nonprofit Buurtzorg, on structures and daily practices. Part 3 looks at the conditions these organisations need, how to start one and how to change an existing one. Teams read it before trying flatter structures. An illustrated version also exists.
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Creating the COO Position
A free Bridgespan article on when and why nonprofits add a chief operating officer, drawn from a survey of COOs and interviews with COOs and executive directors. It covers the usual triggers, such as a chief executive stretched by a growing staff or a growth plan to deliver, the worries executive directors have about sharing control, and how organisations managed the transition. It links to Bridgespan's wider set of COO resources, including sample job descriptions.
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