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Performance Profiles

Traditional organizational assessments tend to come in two varieties:

    1. Formal assessment, with an external agent. These tend to take a long time to complete (to the point that staff can dismiss them as now obsolete) and to include prolonged wordsmithing (which sands off sharp insight in favor of milder references to problems and opportunities).
    2. Internal assessement, often done as a SWOT or other analysis connected to a strategic plan. These tend to avoid touchy areas such as board or staff leadership issues. They are also in many cases not grounded in realities of how customers see the organization’s value.
The Institute’s alternative is a Performance Profile. We read all available materials, come on site for intensive interviews, stick around to present our findings immediately in clear and graphic form. There is no document whose words we must temper to mutual satisfaction! More importantly, the data portrays the organization's immediate condition and leads to target setting. Which of these slides do you most want to change? What should they look like in five years? At the end of this year? We make assessment and improvement inseparable.
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