Focusing on You

Strategic Operations Consulting (SOC) guides small and medium-sized organizations to improve organizational effectiveness and performance by examining and aligning their success factors. We work with organizations from their assessment needs through their evaluation efforts while improving their organizational structure, systems, and processes.

The pandemic made it abundantly clear to everyone the interconnectedness of individuals and systems. We believe it is important to understand this interconnectedness as it pertains to your organization and its ability to reach its goals and objectives. All of our consulting offerings begin with a detailed assessment that helps us gather a clear picture of your organization and everything that has an impact on its ability to achieve its determined outcomes.

Our company’s Core Competencies focus on the organization and all parts that make the whole. This includes Organizational Strategy, Programmatic Strategy, Leadership Development, Capacity Building, and Funding Management.

 
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Organizational Strategy

We work closely with organizations to improve their Organizational Strategy from organizational development to assessments and diagnostics. We help organizations analyze internal and external factors that can have an impact on their long-term sustainability and success. We pride ourselves in being your organization’s personal problem solver by meeting you where you are at, assessing your organization and its internal/external factors, and taking a personal interest in the success of your project, programs, and organization as a whole. Our goal is to find the root of your problems and offering solutions that specifically target them by using many tools, including SWOT Analysis, Mission & Vision Statement Development, Theory of Change Development.

Programmatic Strategy

Depending on the needs of your organization, we focus our efforts specifically on Programmatic Strategy to ensure you meet your program and/or grant deliverables in a timely manner. With over 20 years of experience, we’ve developed successful local, county, state, and nationally recognized programs using scientific-based models to promote an effective process that moves from assessment to program planning, implementation, and evaluation. We can work with your staff to develop strategic plans, action plans, logic models, program plans, and sustainability plans.

Leadership Development

We like to put a spotlight on the importance of quality Leadership Development to promote long-term organizational success. We’d never want to turn work away but we are aware of the fact that our services won’t be effective without the participation of organizational leaders. We work directly with organizational leadership to ensure they do not get in the way of their own success. Our services include performing assessments on the organizational culture, the organizational structure, and leadership styles used throughout the organization. We can offer programming on interpersonal skills building, diversity and inclusion, strengths-based leadership, among others.

Capacity Building

We know from first-hand experience that organizations cannot succeed alone. We work with our clients to increase their Capacity Building efforts. Your organization needs the support of the wider community and key stakeholders to achieve long-term success. We can help you find those individuals and partners in your community who need to be at the table in order to achieve success. We offer tools and resources to assist with the development and management of your volunteers and partners. This includes performing a system analysis to understand the complex systems that can hinder or promote your success.       

Funding Management

Finally, we know that no organization will have long-term success without effective Funding Management. Our team has over a decade of experience in writing successful grant proposals for government and private funding, from federal departments to local foundations. We’ve spent countless hours researching funding opportunities and developing plans to write successful proposals that provide a winning strategy while ensuring the voice of your organization is clearly expressed to potential funders. We will assist your team in preparing and writing responses for all sorts of proposal solicitations from Request for Proposal (RFP) to Letter of Interest (LOI) to Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) and anything in between. This includes working with your finance department to develop the budget necessary for a successful program and developing a management plan for your team to use once the funding is received.