You may need a thinking partner for a couple hours, a workshop with your board, or several working sessions with your team to chart a new direction or come up with a fresh approach to a stale challenge. Whether you’re raising a million dollars or several thousand, building membership, engaging volunteers or growing your donor base, Mary B. Schaefer can think and plan with you to:
Define the right problem
Sounds simple but doing it right is the most important step. The more time you focus on clarifying the challenge, the closer you are to a solution.
Make sense of a changing world
Answer the question: “What’s going on here?” Scan the environment to identify the forces that are creating new opportunities inside and outside your organization.
Foster collaboration, enlist support
Meet with leaders and stakeholders to talk about what’s needed and why, collect their ideas, address their concerns and enlist their support.
Build the case for action
Craft a clear, convincing case to engage the talent and collect the resources needed to advance your cause.
Explore and experiment
Explore and apply a variety of tools and techniques to spark and experiment with inventive tactics and strategies to address your challenges.
