Organizational Lifecycles Assessment
Organizational Lifecycles Assessment
Do you feel you’re squeezing all your effort, energy, and resources into delivering programs and services without a moment to take a breath and look at your internal capacity? Imagine if you could step back from the day-to-day operations and gain clarity on where to best build and strengthen your organization.
From our decades of experience working with non-profits here in BC, we know that to truly understand your organizational capacity, it takes an in-depth understanding of your organization, its history, its current realities, and its aspirations for the future.
This workshop supports you to diagnose your organization’s capacity in governance, management, financial resources, and administrative systems.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Diagnose your organization’s lifecycle stage, pinpoint your exact growing pains, and plan next steps for capacity development.
- Identify steps for your organization to build capacity in governance, management, financial resources, and administrative systems.
- Self-assess your organization’s current stage using the Nonprofit Lifecycle Selfie tool.
- Apply the lifecycle lens and capacity framework to improve the impact of your mission and programs.
Suggested Participants:
Executive Directors/CEOs, board members, and other senior leaders of non-profit organizations.
Note: Participants have found this workshop most beneficial when two to three individuals from the organization register together.
Workshop Benefits:
- A space to explore which planning and capacity building efforts will benefit your organization’s unique situation.
- Insights on whether your current challenges and opportunities are common and how to work through them.
Testimonial:
“I was introduced to this model eleven years ago and have applied it to strategic planning processes and for planning new projects. Knowing what stage we are in, informs the questions we ask and the resources we need to focus on”. — Howard Jang, Executive Director, Arts Club Theatre Company
Facilitator
Nicki Kahnamoui
Her tombstone will most likely read: ‘she made things happen.’ It will also say something about her strong sense of integrity and contagious enthusiasm. With over two decades of experience in strategic and operational planning and implementation, Nicki Kahnamoui partners with mission driven organizations in envisioning, realizing, and improving new and existing projects, programs, and processes. Nicki has worked in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, in various industries and different countries. She has an MA in interdisciplinary studies, a Project Management Professional certificate as well as a certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement. She is also a mixed media visual artist.
Facilitator
JP Baker
JP Vantage Point’s Planning Consultant, ready to support organizations strategize the most effective ways to reach their goals. JP has extensive experience as a facilitator, consultant, researcher, and writer. As a consultant, JP is sought out for his expertise in governance, organizational culture, strategy, process design, and change management. Over the past ten years, he has done strategic planning with a wide variety of non-profit organizations and university departments and led the development of several community-wide plans.
Outside these accomplishments, he also has experience in international language education. Specifically, JP taught English in South Korea – which he loved for both the people and the food – Vancouver, and Victoria, where he ran Mingus Language Services. JP likes to bring his communication skills to his work, active listening, and articulating ideas. He also enjoys making broad connections – between people, ideas, and organizations.
Outside of his role as Planning Consultant, JP is passionate about books – both as a reader and a writer – food, fatherhood, and music (you might even catch him around town performing with his rock band)! If you want to strike up a conversation with JP, some good starter points are books, food, football, and organizational development.
