A First Set of Questions to Ask Your Potential Client
Consulting books often suggest a sequence of steps or phases that a consulting project goes…
Carter McNamara
Carter McNamara’s posts
Role of the Nonprofit Board Fundraising Committee
One of the biggest misconceptions about the Fundraising Committee is that its members are to…
Business Laws & Ethics
Using Project Teams On Organizational Change Projects
Benefits of Consulting and/or Project Teams Occasionally, a client will specify that they want a…
Operations
Links to Build a Consulting Practice
Our firm gets 4-5 calls/month from people wanting to know how to start or grow…
Consulting & Freelancing
Developing Your Skills in Empathy
A guest blog from Carter McNamara. What Is Empathy? Why Is It So Important? Empathy…
Leadership Skills
How Much Should the Client Be Involved in Consulting Projects?
Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting, asserts that, as a consultant, you should not be…
Consulting & Freelancing
Some Criteria For a Mission Statement to Meet
There are few topics in strategic planning that generate such diverse and strong opinions as…
Business Planning
Some New Nonprofit Board Models
As demands for Board effectiveness and accountability continue to grow, research and discussions about how…
Business Laws & Ethics
Definition of an Ethical Dilemma
This blog post has been moved to the Business Ethics topic in the Library.
Business Laws & Ethics
What is “Success” in Project Management?
Your client’s perception of project “success” is the basis from which your client concludes, for…
PM Methodologies
8 Guidelines for Managing Ethics in the Workplace
The following guidelines ensure the ethics management program is operated in a meaningful fashion: 1.…
Business Laws & Ethics
Linking Innovation and Operations
Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Yet it is extremely important that this…
Consulting & Freelancing
Ethics Management Programs: An Overview
What’s an Ethics Management Program? Organizations can manage ethics in their workplaces by establishing an…
Business Laws & Ethics
Types of Consultants: Consulting Foundations – Part 4
Part 1 of this series is What Do Consultants Do?, which defines a consultant (as…
Consulting & Freelancing
How NOT to Do Strategic Planning!
I got a call from an organization that was (as they said) “desperate to finally…
Business Planning
Maintaining the Delicate Balance between Leadership and Management
This is a guest post from Dr. Greg Waddell. Management and Leadership are two very…