Our Services
MGS provides comprehensive services to organizations of all sizes, tailoring our work to maximize your time and resources, and consistently delivering more than you expect.
Using a whole systems perspective, we help our clients clarify their goals, refine steps towards meeting them, and act efficiently at each point along the way. This process is designed to provide successful outcomes for both the organization and the constituents it seeks to serve.
Board Development
MGS helps Boards work and grow successfully in their given capacity. People on the board of an organization have the primary responsibility of supporting the mission of that organization. Depending on the agency, community, and size of the organization, Boards perform a wide range of tasks, including providing governance, ensuring resources, and participating in organizational operations. MGS can:
- Work to understand in what areas the Board is seeking growth, either as an entire unit or among individual members.
- Determine appropriate means to encourage that growth, such as meeting or retreat facilitation, skill development training, or individual leadership consulting.
- Engage Board members in order to maximize the efficiency of the Board and align their efforts with the needs of their constituents.
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Business Planning
MGS works with small businesses, departments and non-profit organizations to plan and make important decisions using a variety of means. This work ensures that an organization’s efforts and evaluation strategies are making the best use of existing information to ensure good decision-making in key areas. We can provide either short or long term research in relevant areas, and provide recommendations based on this information. We provide research services for needs such as examining customer trends, locating results from similar programs, or highlighting environmental conditions to look at possible revenue initiatives. MGS can:
- Work with you to understand whether business planning and market research would be useful, and select applicable research sources and methodologies to utilize in the process.
- Meet with leaders and/or senior team members or boards to assist in narrowing the key questions facing the organization, and to target planning and inquiries in the most streamlined and useful manner.
- Conduct thorough, current research and create a comprehensive report of relevant findings, as well as outline a plan to incorporate them into your current or planned organizational structure.
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Development and Organizational Systems Consulting
At MGS, we believe organizations that are successful are organizations that accept and manage the inherent need to change in order to grow. We will help your organization successfully navigate the often complicated road to change. We partner with groups whose organizations are beginning new initiatives, changing directions, or enhancing their organization's performance or infrastructure. We work with clients to achieve specific business goals as well as to enhance the capacity of people within the organization to feel more committed to the organization, more confident of their own contributions, and more prepared to deal with change as a continuous experience. MGS can:
- Identify the organizational aspects or your group that will benefit from change, and consider their long-term implications on your organization’s mission.
- Create a strategic approach to communicate the requirements and benefits of this change to all arms of your organization (Board, staff, stakeholder, etc.)
- Actively engage your organization in evaluating the content of your work as well as the process through which it is carried out, and generate consensus on effective ways to reconcile the content and process.
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Diversity Consulting
Diversity sustains organizations. In organizations, people turn to each other to develop values, to produce results, and to achieve their collective vision. MGS works with organizations to examine the richness of their own resources, people, organizational culture and customer base, and to develop the understanding of diversity as a strategic issue, in order to improve the professional development of individuals and the overall health of the organization. MGS can:
- Create an understanding of how promoting diversity within your organization will strengthen it.
- Determine which of the following diversity areas are relevant to your organization:Diversity Basics, Communication Skills, International Workforce Issues, Management Skills, Cultural Issues, Disability Issues, Age and Generational Issues, Gender Issues, Global Thinking,orLearning and Behaviors.
- Conduct workshops or individual leadership consulting surrounding the pertinent issues in the unique context of your organization.
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Evaluations
Evaluation is a systematic way to assess the extent to which a program has achieved its intended results. We work with clients to plan, pilot and assess their evaluation efforts, using, among others, some of the tools and strategies that the United Way recommends. MGS can assist in strategy, design and communication and/or we can provide the resources to build a whole system complete with computerized tracking methods. Our end goal is to help our clients gather information that will be useful to them in continuing to provide effective service to their customers, in support of their organizational mission. MGS can:
- Work to understand your organization’s mission and customers, intended audience of the evaluation results and the decisions to be made as a result of the evaluation process.
- Determine useful evaluation sources and appropriate methods of obtaining and reviewing information (surveys, interviews, databases, etc.)
- Create tools and initiate evaluation process with a timely, results oriented focus.
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Grant Writing
For many organizations, a key part of experiencing successful growth is securing funding. MGS is experienced with all aspects of grant-writing, including prospect research, budget creation, and proposal development, and is happy to work on applications of all sizes, whether small and local, large and federal, or anything in between. Our approach is a collaborative one, focused on learning as much as possible about the overall goals and funding needs of your organization or program, and keeping you up to date on the status of various applications. MGS has close working relationships with several local funders which gives us insight into the funding process, allowing us to successfully translate the divide between funders and grantees. MGS can:
- Conduct thorough research regarding available and applicable grants for your organization.
- Create a detailed timeline for all components of each application.
- Execute work on various components of grant applications in a timely and thorough manner, incorporating client suggestions and input as necessary.
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Individual Leadership Consulting
At MGS, we believe that people ultimately have the capacity to resolve the challenges they face. Occasionally it's useful to engage with a coach to discover more resources and strategies, and to get feedback on one's effectiveness as a leader. MGS’ individual leadership consulting is designed to do just that. MGS can:
- Work with the individual client to understand the need for one-on-one coaching and anticipated outcomes.
- Help the client determine which core focus/skill training should be the focal point in order to reach anticipated outcomes. MGS provides individual consulting for many areas, including but not limited to goal identification, skill development, and one-on-one management coaching.
- Meet for 90 minute sessions as often as necessary (typically monthly) to work on skill development and track progress in reaching the individual’s anticipated outcomes.
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Meetings and Retreats
Meetings are where individuals come together to share insights and ideas; to generate new thinking; to solve problems; and to plan for the future. MGS will help you plan and/or facilitate your next important meeting or retreat. We can work with you to plan an entire program, or to design and facilitate a specific component of your meeting or conference. MGS can:
- Work towards your preference to undertake a large or small role in the implementation and/or facilitation of your meeting.
- Gain a thorough understanding of the expected outcome of your meeting and set and create a cohesive agenda to help make that happen.
- Put the agenda in motion, either through direct facilitation or indirect support.
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Strategic Analysis
Organizational leaders often sense a need for change, but don’t know where to start. Often within the organization a large amount of information and experience already exists which could guide decision-making and/or provide information for funders or stakeholders. However, wading through years of information, or comparing existing data sources with new data requirements is often extremely time consuming. This leads to organizations spending time and money to recreate information they already have but can’t access. As such, MGS provides strategic analysis services, assessing the processes, systems, and knowledge that an organization already has, or that close comparison organizations already have, and identifying communication and evaluation strategies with the most potential for growth and impact. For clients that we are already working worth, MGS provides this service at a reduced flat fee. MGS can:
- Conduct an environmental scan of your organization, in relation to both its mission and other similar groups, and review past information that your organization has gathered along with any new information requirements or strategies.
- Work with your organization to identify internal and external strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Utilize this information to pinpoint specific recommendations that will maximize organizational success and longevity, and prepare an overview report for use within the information or as requested by external stakeholders or funders.
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Strategic Planning
An organization that looks forward towards an articulated future and takes the necessary steps to reach that point in time is a successful organization. At MGS, our approach is about enhancing the strategic nature of all aspects of your organization’s planning; from initial thoughts and conversations to a larger, long term vision. We will tailor our expertise to your organization’s needs and resources in order to help you design and implement a clear, comprehensive strategic plan that propels your organization into a successful future. MGS can:
- Gain an understanding of the primary goals and concerns of your organization’s stakeholders.
- Assess the resources and skill sets of your organization that will be most useful in reaching intended goals through a thorough strategic analysis.
- Work with appropriate organizational members to create a roadmap to articulate and implement goal-oriented movement based on maximizing organizational capacity.
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Workshops
MGS workshops and courses are designed to be a pragmatic, interactive experience that participants can immediately apply to their jobs. For each offering we tailor the workshop or training course to the needs and environment of the participants and their sponsoring organization. MGS training programs are positive, customized, and job relevant. They includeConstructive Engagement and Managing Conflict, Managing Change, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Culture and Diversity for Organizational Success, Coaching Across Cultures, andCareer Development. Detailed information about these workshops can be obtained by contacting MGS. MGS can:
- Work with you to determine the most relevant workshop(s) for your organization.
- Customize the workshop(s) to suit the environment and capabilities of the participants, to enhance relevancy, and encourage engagement.
- Conduct workshop (typically 4-6 hours) in a professional, enthusiastic manner, encouraging member participation and reflection.
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