Services

Corliss Consulting: Organizational Development for Public and Nonprofit Agencies

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning identifies your organization's priorities and the methods to achieve them. An important focus is how to make the plan "real" for day-to-day operations and inclusion of performance indicators in the design for better outcome evaluation.

Analysis
Setting Direction
Implementation
Monitoring and Evaluation

Evaluation

There are many reasons to conduct evaluation: program improvement, building consensus, aiding decision-making and organizational learning are just a few.

Evaluability Assessment
Literature Review
Program Evaluation
Survey Development
Evaluation Reports
Capacity Building (also see "Workshops")

Training Design

Would you like to offer professional development opportunities for staff, but are unsure about which topics or how to deliver them? Do you need help designing a training for audiences that are geographically dispersed?

Training Design
Implementing Web-Based Training
Evaluation and Outcome Measurement
Reporting

Managing Volunteers

Maximize the organization's capacity to achieve mission by effectively utilizing volunteers.

Recruitment
Retention
Recognition
Legal Issues
Policy Development

Workshops

Emphasis on participant involvement. Workshops can be tailored to your professional development needs, or you may choose from these existing topics:

Planning and Assessment Tools
Stages of Group Development
Goal Setting
Policy Development
Productive Meetings

Event Planning

Achieve the goals of your meeting or event with maximum participant engagement while staying on track.

Event Planning
Meeting Facilitation