Programs and Services
CMG delivers executive search services including succession planning, recruiting, research, reference checking, and contract negotiations. With over a decade of experience in executive search, CMG consistently identifies top candidates. Candidates placed through CMG search services overwhelmingly enjoy a healthy, successful tenure with their employing organizations.
CMG’s extensive preparations ensure a thorough understanding of each client’s culture, values, concerns, strategic direction and expectations ensuring a “goodness of fit” in recruitment.
Strategic and Business Planning
While CMG favors a comprehensive approach to evaluation and planning, we try to keep the process as simple and straightforward as possible. With time being the most valuable resource for volunteers and staff, CMG makes every effort to produce quality results in a cost effective and efficient manner.
CMG can help with:
- Member needs assessment
- Risk assessment and market research
- Facilitation of planning sessions
- Preparation of planning document
- Execution and support of strategic plan including business planning and accountability tracking
Organizational and Operational Audits
The ultimate measure of an efficient and effective organization is its ability to accomplish the goals of the organization and to meet the needs of members and member prospects. CMG audits offer an independent, outside view of an organization’s programs, services, structure, governance, operations and fiscal condition. An assessment of an organization’s culture is an integral part of CMG audits.
Board and Staff Training and Development
Associations encourage members and constituents to engage in professional development and continuing education…boards and staff need it too.
CMG works with clients in development of customized training for leaders and staff including:
- Exploration of new directions in leading non-profit organizations
- Examination of roles, rights and responsibilities of volunteer leaders and staff
- Skill building in conflict management and communications
- Development of take home tools
- Investigation of organizational traps
Associations look to the strategies of merger, consolidation or unification to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness; eliminate or decrease duplication; conserve resources; create a more powerful voice or rescue a faltering organization.
CMG is one of the country’s experts in facilitating merger discussions. CMG works with all parties to:
- Identify a vision of “what can be” for the industry or profession
- Manage issues
- Direct process
- Overcome barriers
- Avoid traps
- Fashion transition and start up plans
Linda is a skilled facilitator of strategic planning and Board development for non-profits; she works well with diverse Boards of Directors and produces a comprehensive final product that serves to guide organizational imperatives. She handles conflict smoothly and negotiates the political climate expertly. We've used her for return engagements, and often when we've chosen another facilitator, have been disappointed by the results!
