Management Consulting for Small Enterprises
Our clients are a broad assortment of small nonprofits and businesses that face a universal, daily problem: How to use their finite human and financial resources in the most effective and efficient way so that they can achieve their strategic goals.
For a nonprofit, the result is to measurably increase the impact of its work while maximizing its resources. For a small business, the goal is to become more competitive and efficient to support continued growth.
Small nonprofits and for-profit businesses work with us to address many common challenges:
- Efficient and effective use of finite financial and human resources
- How to build or restructure the organization to meet strategic goals
- Analyze and streamline organizational decision making
- Develop processes that help prioritize activities and spending
- Retain institutional knowledge and replicate successful projects
- Incorporate Project Management tools and skills
Every consulting engagement is highly customized because each client is unique. The individual character of each client and its immediate and long-term needs differ. Solutions are developed by working closing with the client so that key questions are identified, focused data collection and analysis follows, and challenges and options are discussed. The result is a customized implementation plan. The final step is helping the client to integrate the new plan into its organization.
Success is measured by whether the organization has the platform to increase its services and/or goods while using its current financial and human resources.
Efficiency Seminars for Small Enterprises
Get the most out of your finite resources by incorporating efficiency tools and skills into how you work every day, in every way.
Trying to do more with the same, or fewer, resources is the norm, especially in today's challenging economic environment. Large corporations have long used efficiency strategies and practices to achieve more with less; now nonprofits and small businesses can learn how to use the same tools, adjusted to meet the special needs of smaller organizations.
Why do I need an efficiency seminar?
If you or your team wants to achieve more and be more productive by working in a more streamlined and organized way, then an efficiency seminar is for you.
When an entire team learns to implement efficiency concepts and skills simultaneously, change happens much more rapidly. More people can be reached in seminars conducted on site, at your organization.
Brenna Consulting draws on its years of hands-on experience with business and nonprofits to make sure every seminar meets three criteria:
- Issues that directly impact an organization's goals are the focus of the seminar.
- These issues can be positively affected when organizational skills that increase efficiency and effectiveness are incorporated into everyday practices.
- Each seminar is specifically designed to address the particular challenges faced by nonprofits and small businesses.
Plus, every seminar is customized to meet the individual character and unique challenges of the participating organization, division, or department.
Seminars
- Project Management for small enterprises
- Time Management for today's workplace
- Effective Decision Making: Streamline and reorganize how you make decisions
Project Management for Small Enterprises
Project Management techniques have been embraced by large companies to effectively manage projects small and large. Why? Because productivity increases and results are superior when Project Management tools are consistently and widely used.
At a time when more is expected from limited resources, incorporating the basic tools of Project Management into your everyday activities can make a measurable difference in how much you can achieve and the quality of your work.
This seminar is customized to focus on the practical application of Project Management concepts, tools, and skills that are relevant to your organization's needs and challenges.
How you will benefit
- Each seminar is customized so participants learn Project Management concepts and tools using the organization's current projects and challenges.
- Get the skills to identify and develop a business case for each project.
- Learn the 4 main components of a project: Defining, Planning, Managing, and Closing a project.
- Learn the techniques to identify and manage problems and change.
- Practice developing a project charter, scope of work, communications plan, and scheduling of tasks
This is a 3-6 hour seminar, depending on the number and depth of topics covered.
Time Management for Today's Workplace
Take control of your time and accomplish more, improve your results, and decrease stress. This seminar teaches time management techniques that help you juggle the demands of today's workplace, where you're expected to do more with less and manage electronic tools that both help and hinder, all at the same time.
How you will benefit
- Learn tried and true time management techniques applicable to your organization.
- Discover the critical six steps to take control of your time.
- Recognize how you spend your time, and how to change to use it more wisely.
- Identify your time management strengths and weaknesses.
- Learn effective skills to handle interruptions, phone calls, and emails.
This is a 2-3 hour seminar.
Effective Decision Making: Streamline and reorganize how you make decisions
Making good decisions efficiently, and then implementing them effectively, is a characteristic of successful organizations. This is especially true in today's world, where an organization's response to change can mean success or failure.
This seminar is designed to probe your organization's decision-making techniques, identify what works, and develop new tools and strategies to streamline how you make decisions.
How you will benefit
- Identify organizational goals and priorities.
- Map out how organizational decisions are made, and how they are implemented.
- Discover decision-making strengths and weaknesses.
- Develop new, more efficient practices and tools.
- Learn how to plan and lead effective meetings.
This is a 2-3 hour seminar.