As someone working in a mission-driven business or organization, the work you do is crucial to both the people and communities you serve. But you can’t do it all – depending on the stage your organization is at, you might need expertise in strategic planning, board development, advocacy, program development, marketing and more. A consultant with various ways to measure and evaluate the needs of organizations is a solution.
Why do people invest in things like consulting services? Why don’t they just do it themselves? Well, people buy consulting services for three reasons:
- They are unable to get the desired results on their own
- They want to get results faster
- They want someone who has a proven system and to receive guidance from somebody who has actually done it
A good consultant is part evaluator, part researcher, and part program specialist. A good consultant can help your program with some or all of the following:
- Develop measures to determine whether your program is meeting its goals and objectives and having its intended impacts.
- Design data collection forms, procedures, and databases to capture and record data collected.
- Analyze data and present results and conclusions from the findings.
- Provide recommendations to the organization regarding ways to
improve service delivery based on data collected
Early in the process both you and the consultant should agree on the questions to be addressed by their evaluation, including the assessments that need to be performed to address those questions and how or when they will be accomplished.
Social Solutions Consulting can help. We have a free Initial Consultation that allows us to collect the needed information from our clients and make the approach a collaborative process so the consultant understands exactly what the organization is hoping to resolve.
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