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Since SPR offers strong evaluation and research capacity, we can build technical assistance and facilitation services on a solid foundation of organizational evaluation and research into topics of interest.
Organizational Assessment and Improvement
SPR has extensive experience conducting organizational assessments for federal, state, and local programs, non-profits and local and national foundations to improve their business operations and management. Our organizational assessments involve a thorough review of the organizations’ needs and priorities so that we can support them in their programmatic and collaborative efforts. Our particular area of expertise is analyzing foundations’ grant-making strategies to inform their future strategic direction and design major funding initiatives. Furthermore, we have unique expertise in helping clients integrate diversity in their organizational structures, funding strategies, and grant making practices.
Strategic, Business, Action Planning
SPR has consulted for federal agencies, states, and private sector businesses in their strategic decision-making and action planning. We typically conduct needs assessments of the businesses’ practices, identifying key challenges to meeting goals and convene key stakeholders to identify strategies and solutions.
Facilitation Services
As facilitators, we help organizations define the agenda of strategic events in their organizational development. We provide logistical support, and prepare group activities and discussions that appeal to a wide range of people. We also document and disseminate reports from the proceedings so participants can use them long after the gathering.
SPR follows a rigorous design in its facilitation services. We plan thoroughly, delineate methods and objectives clearly, and build in sound research where feasible.
Our facilitation services are energetic, motivating, and productive. We engage persons from all backgrounds and learning styles by using creative approaches to convene meetings and facilitate activities.
Typically, our facilitation services address three overarching objectives:
- Problem solving, where we help diagnose problems in organizational effectiveness and program design, identify possible solutions, and develop corrective action plans.
- Dispute resolution, where we assist in resolving disputes, disagreements, and divergent views and build common ground by using interest-based negotiation strategies.
- Strategic planning where we help organizations at all levels come together to define their strategic objectives based on needs and assets assessments and comprehensive gap analyses. As part of this process, we help organizations translate their strategic objective into manageable and well-sequenced action steps along a critical path towards organizational improvement.
We design all of our facilitation services so that participants leave with a clear understanding of outcomes achieved and further activities planned.
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