Team productivity and time use audit for nonprofits
Your team is constantly busy but somehow not making progress on what matters most — time is being lost to low-value activities nobody has ever questioned.
What you'll achieve
A clearer, better-prioritised use of team time that frees up capacity for high-impact work and reduces the chronic sense of overload.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Conduct a time and workload audit, identify where effort is misaligned with priorities, and facilitate a practical session to redesign how your team works.
Key deliverables
- Time audit findings, workload analysis, stop/start/continue plan, async working guidelines, manager guide for sustainable workload management.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Bridgespan Organizational Effectiveness Framework survey
An online team survey on Org360 that runs a Bridgespan-based organisational assessment for nonprofits. It has 85 questions and takes about 34 minutes. Areas include strategic clarity, governance, financial sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion, with rating questions and open reflection questions. Leaders, board members and staff respond, and Org360 produces an automatic report with strengths, gaps and a development plan. It is free to use after sign-up.
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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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