Understanding Your Needs...

Please spend a few minutes working through this checklist.

It will enable you to understand your organisation’s needs, and how Alsbury Management Solutions might help you.

 Strategy

 Our team can help you if your organisation:

• Does not have a strategic plan

• Has only identified very short-term goals

• Has looked mostly at internal challenges, and is not particularly aware of the wider market for its products and services

• Has not developed clear strategic priorities nor set organisational objectives

• Has developed clear strategic priorities and set organisational objectives, but has not revised its operations to deliver these objectives

• Wants to develop a new market or grow its services, but cannot understand how its needs to modify management and operations to make this happen

 Risk

 Our team can help you if your organisation:

• Is not fit for current purpose, and is seeking an organisational review

• Has limited board governance

• Wishes to review its governance structure

• Experiences confusion about board and staff responsibilities

• Has a high board or staff turnover rate

• Is financially under-performing, is in debt, insolvent and/or contemplating bankruptcy

• Is currently putting its charitable status at risk

• Is unable to carry out its strategy due to lack of resources

• Seems to be increasing its activity levels without any overall understanding of the resource implications

• Is unsure about the viability and sustainability of its products and services

• Is unable to find the resources to improve or grow

 Management

 Our team can help you if your organisation:

• Needs an interim Chief Executive Officer or Executive Director

• Needs to re-think its management structure and the responsibilities of its senior management team

• Needs to increase its management capacity and skills

• Needs to develop a more sophisticated approach to business planning

• Does not yet have an effective performance management framework

 Operations

 Our team can help you if your organisation’s staff:

• Are performing inadequately

• Do not understand what contribution they each make to your organisation’s performance

• Do not have clear objectives to define their individual and team performance

• Are not evaluated on a monthly, quarterly and/or yearly basis

 Skills

 Our team can help you if your organisation:

• Does not understand in detail what skills are needed to deliver its strategy

• Does not have a corporate training & development strategy or plan

• Is worried about its succession planning

• Has a high proportion of inexperienced board members

• Has a group of staff who are not aligned with the mission, vision and values of the organisation

• Is experiencing a high level of internal professional or personal conflict

 Change

 Our team can help you if your organisation:

• Wants to improve its current use of resources

• Wants to strengthen board governance and competence

• Wants to achieve a step change in its performance

• Wants to invest in its people

• Wants to understand its market better, and respond better to customers’ needs