Management Consultancy

Mapping, Research,Needs Assessment

Being informed ensures that your organisation is going in the right direction. Lin Gillians can help with national and local research and mapping. For example, collecting information on voluntary and community sector activity, researching good practice elsewhere, or finding national statistics and information about your client group.

Strategy and Planning

 In order to develop, it is essential to know the big picture and how you fit into it, to know where you are going and how to get there. Lin G Consulting can help with strategic and business planning: facilitating away days; gathering base line information; consulting with users and other stakeholders; helping to set aims, objectives, and targets; and developing monitoring and evaluation systems. Good strategy and planning can be applied to projects, organisations, joint work and partnerships.

User, Community, and Stakeholder Involvement

Involving users in service development and evaluation is a key to success. This involvement may vary; evaluation of current services; views on service development; consultation on Community Strategies, ChangeUp Infrastructure Development Plans, Neighbourhood Renewal, and Local Area Agreements to name but a few. Consultation can be undertaken using focus groups, telephone or face-to-face interviews, or through questionnaires.

Toolkits, Frameworks, Monitoring and Evaluation

 Management tools for quality assurance, accreditation and performance assessment are becoming essential within the voluntary sector, assist organisations with capacity building. Lin Gillians can assist in the development of toolkits and frameworks, appropriate monitoring systems and quality assurance systems like PQASSO. Lin G Consulting can help develop monitoring and evaluation systems or undertake evaluations and reviews of partnerships, organisations or projects.

Practical support: management and administration

 Sometimes its not a fresh perspective or expertise that you need, its extra time. Lin Gillians can provide you with practical support. Someone to write the funding application, job description, terms of reference for a steering committee or protocols; or to write or re-write guidelines for a project.
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