Process consultation
Wildwood’s consultants do not apply a standard approach to every situation. Instead we have the expertise to engage clients in identifying problems and opportunities, generating buy-in, finding and agreeing on solutions, and developing the ability to identify and address problems and opportunities in the future.
By providing processes and insights about human systems, Wildwood helps clients deal with situations as diverse as outdated visions and missions, low morale, conflict among staff, inefficient meetings, and unproductive work teams.
- Board effectiveness
- Strategic planning
- Performance assessment / performance appraisal
- our commitment to growth and constructive feedback, and
- our conviction that self-assessment is the most powerful instrument for sustainable change.
Wildwood’s consultants have helped dozens of boards of directors in education, health, social services, religion, and other sectors improve their effectiveness by developing and adopting improved governance processes, creating vision and mission statements that breathe new life into their organizations, facilitating strategic planning and other sessions, and guiding conflict resolution and other processes.
Wildwood customizes every strategic planning engagement to suit clients’ unique organizational cultures, their leadership styles and planning teams, and the key environmental factors affecting their current and future success.
By working with clients to design every step of the strategic planning process, we ensure that planning sessions are productive. Depending on clients’ needs, our strategic planning service may include gathering information through surveys or consultations with stakeholders (staff, clients, customers, funders, volunteers, etc.), interviewing key informants, and providing environmental scans and other reports that provide planners with the information they need to make insightful, strategic decisions about their organization’s future.
We will also compile your strategic plan documents, assist with action planning, and provide follow-up services such as performance monitoring and team building.
We have developed approaches to assessment and evaluation that can benefit any and all levels of an organization from individuals and teams to departments and entire organizations.
This unique Wildwood approach reflects two things:
We work with clients to develop instruments that will gather assessment and evaluation data that is verifiable evidence of performance, report on the findings, and provide clients with ongoing support that helps them continue their pursuit of quality and excellence.
