Bailey Leadership Initiative Consulting Services, Iowa City

Consulting Services

Planning

Strategic
Operation
Fundraising Development

Good planning is the foundation for any successful endeavor and planning begins with a shared vision of what you want your organization to be. Using customized approaches to work with your leadership team and stakeholders, we help your organization develop a plan in a way that makes sense for your organization in its current stage of growth. Whether you need a strategic plan, a plan for operations, and a thorough plan for fundraising development, we work with you to develop methods and outcomes that will help your organization accomplish its goals.

Staff and Board Development

Understanding the roles of the staff and the board is critical to the success of any organization. Often, these roles shift as the organization grows and moves through different organizational life stages. We work with you to develop methods that enable the people in your organization to understand and to be successful in their roles in your organization. We can help you put systems in place to support the work of staff and board and help you develop the leadership capacity necessary to help your organization thrive.

Team Building

Whether it’s creating clarity and cohesiveness within your board or within your staff, we work with you to develop a stronger, more connected team. Understanding of preferred work approaches, communication styles, and personal work values will help your team be a more cohesive unit. Ensuring shared objectives and vision, as well as understanding how that vision plays out in the day-to-day or meeting-to-meeting environment will help your team develop its capacity to work as a unit.

Advocacy & Outreach Planning and Implementation

Much of what any organization does is about the relationships it develops and sustains. Ensuring that your organization is visible and that it is making its case to decision leaders is a critical component of funding and policy work. We work with your organization to identify your goals for advocacy and outreach and help you develop the best plan to meet those goals. Too many organizations overlook the important component of relationship building as they work in their communities. The most successful organizations are well-connected and well-understood in their communities and regions—by their clients, their supporters, and by decision leaders in their communities.

Facilitation Services

Sometimes you need someone to ask the hard—or seemingly obvious—questions, keep the group moving ahead as they discuss an issue, or be a neutral third party to help in a difficult discussion. We bring those skills—and other critical facilitation approaches—to your group or organization to enable everyone to participate in the discussion at hand. Using a sensitive and sensible approach, we can help you structure a meeting or a series of meetings in a way that encourages participation and dialogue to address the issue or task at-hand.