Professional Development

Leadership Coaching & Career Development

Developing efficient and high-quality leaders and their teams creates even higher levels of performance and success. do good Consulting helps your organization and individuals on your team maximize performance by addressing specific challenges facing your leadership team.

Combining personal and team support and productivity tools, do good helps individuals identify and achieve their career goals and helps organizations move through transition periods and grow overall team productivity.

Trust Building & Communication Enhancement

Trust is a basic criterion for successful teamwork, and active trust building is critical to a strong and stable work environment. While different groups have different needs, a workplace based on trust builds stronger bonds among team members and enhances communication at the workplace. do good Consulting can work with your team and its leadership to develop trust throughout the workplace, enhancing communication – and performance – across the board.

Conflict Resolution

Conflict is a normal part of organizational life. Handled properly, conflict can provide numerous opportunities for growth through improved understanding and insight. do good Consulting can help your team move from viewing conflict as a negative experience caused by difficult circumstances to an opportunity for growth and learning. Move past the perception of limited options and finite resources in seeking solutions to finding multiple solutions and possibilities that exist 'outside the box'.

Staff Retention & Development

Today’s non-profit is fast paced, under-funded, and deals with numerous unpredictable situations daily. A healthy workplace – with low staff turnover and highly-trained workers – starts with a team that can find ways to relieve stress and function with maximum effectiveness in the moment. do good Consulting can help managers find common sense principles that allow workers to turn stress into productive energy, get trained for top performance, and get a sense of achievement and pride from their work. do good will help you build camaraderie in the workplace, eliminate conflict (see above), and recognize employees properly.

Networking Skills for Donor Cultivation

Would you like to harness and master the interpersonal and networking skills and drive needed to negotiate and garner small and large gifts alike? The art of networking and cultivation is not an easy one to learn. do good Consulting can help not only your development team build these skills, but turn your entire organization into a donor cultivation machine. Learn skills, tactics, processes, and techniques that will enlarge your donor database and bring cash in your door to help you expand your programs.

Client/Customer Service

What do existing, new, and potential clients think of your facility, staff, programs, and services? What do you do well? What can you do better? Learn to ‘wow’ the public with excellent customer service practices that everyone from staff to board members to volunteers can implement and embrace. Whether you need a full walk-through assessment or a simple tune-up, do good consultants can help.

Time Management, Organization & Communication Skills

Strong time management and organizational skills are essential to all successful non-profit leaders, creating efficiency and greater accountability. If you think you’re too busy for time management or getting organized, do good Consulting can help. do good’s time management and organizational activities help you work smarter, not harder. Through simple, practical techniques that have helped people at all levels of non-profit work, we can help you get organized, stay on track, and focus more clearly on your goals. Learn to identify and stay focused on daily, monthly, annual, and career goals simultaneously taking your career to new levels.

 

“Individuals require training and a mentored field experience to perform optimally when transitioning into a new career. These components weren't available to me in my new job. Hiring do good Consulting was the first and best decision I made. Laura aided me every step of the way. From getting my organization’s office staffed to wiring it with the necessary technology, do good led the way. When I was finally trained in creating and leading a non-profit agency, Laura was there whenever I needed assistance. She's business-savvy and maintains a plethora of resources. I would recommend do good to any new or growing non-profit organization: the investment is most certainly worth it.”   - Debbi Erikson, Former Executive Director, Golden Apple Central Illinois

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“The board and staff seem to be moving in different directions. Can we bring them together on common goals?”

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“I can’t seem to get past this situation; there has to be a better way.”