Change management support for nonprofits
A major change is underway — a restructure, merger, or new strategy — and staff are anxious, resistant, or quietly disengaged.
What you'll achieve
A well-managed change process where staff feel heard, understand the direction, and are equipped to move forward with confidence.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Design a change management plan tailored to your context, support leadership in communicating effectively, facilitate staff engagement sessions, and help you anticipate and manage resistance.
Key deliverables
- Change management plan, stakeholder engagement map, communication templates, facilitated staff sessions, leadership coaching, post-change pulse survey.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
A do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators who help organisations develop in healthier and more human ways. Written by a collective of development practitioners, it covers how to read an organisation, how to facilitate change, leadership, relationships, power and building a learning organisation. A library of downloadable exercises, readings, case studies and diagrams sits on the Barefoot website. Facilitators use it to plan OD processes and run sessions with teams.
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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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