Executive Consulting
Stockard Consulting will guide your organization to a better understanding of your community and the services it needs, and then position your organization to best provide those services. Our philosophy is mission-driven, as we help you understand the impact you are making and improve your ability to fulfill your promises to funders and to those you serve. We take a business-like approach, creating a step-by-step process for your organization to successfully sustain its services.
Executive Consulting includes the following services, as needed:
- Organizational assessment
- Restructuring
- Coaching
- Relationship building
- Fundraising
- Board development
- Executive searches
- Human resources
- Business planning
- Strategic planning
- Leadership development
- Establishment of new programs and services
- Succession planning
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Operational viability assessment
- Collaboration
- Capital acquisition and expansion
Stockard Consulting offers several other Executive Consulting services:
Executive Leadership
We prepare young executives for leadership positions by using a proven scientific approach. Our training is a transformational process that teaches you to understand your own natural behaviors and adjust them to adapt to the behavior of the people you are leading.
Our leadership program is a three-step process to help new executives develop personal development plans and become effective team leaders. These steps include:
- Assessments to help you understand your natural behaviors
- Tools to teach you the skill sets you need to become a top executive
- Role-playing exercises to develop your presentation skills
Non-Profit Development Advising
For executive directors and directors of development that are new to the fundraising profession or are looking to improve their skills and gain a fresh perspective and renewed sense of motivation. This process will enhance the ability of individuals in working with and cultivating major donors for their non-profit organization.
Advising includes but is not limited to:
- Professional Advising
- How to Ask Probing Questions
- One on One Meetings
- Major Donor Research
- The Art of Making Appointments
- Cultivating a Major Donor
- How to Ask for the Gift
- Developing Good Listening Skills
- Matching the Donor’s Interest with the Organization’s Needs
- Grant Writing
- Publications
- Internet Fundraising
- Planned Giving
Organizational Management
It is important to determine the structure of an organization and the relationships and ranks of the people in that organization. Understanding the order of authority and the way it’s delegated and executed greatly benefits communication and defines responsibilities.
The proper organizational structure helps the organization successfully accomplish its objectives.
Stockard Consulting’s Organizational Management includes the following services:
- Management structure
- Organizational flow
- Defining roles and responsibilities
- Improving communication
- Improving employee productivity and efficiency
- Cross training
- Identifying personnel needs
- Collaboration
- Goal attainment
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
- John F. Kennedy