Strategy is about the big picture. Decisions about strategy, while difficult, provide purpose for organizations. The Stuart Group team assembled for your project will guide leaders through a defined process that is built around your needs. Our aim is to work with you, and others in the organization, to develop a plan that defines a vision and the actions necessary to see it through.
Do you ever wonder why your good ideas, or those of others, fail to find traction? Why even the most well-intentioned email or conversation is misunderstood, leading to confusion and frustration? Good communication is essential for leaders, teams, and organizations. These workshops employ a DISC Methodology to identify the communications styles of the people in the organization and unpack these styles in an informal, highly participatory format that enhances self-awareness, develops skills, and brings people together.
Most meetings are bad. We struggle to find the point, offer our perspective, or gain any useful information. Meetings 101 is all about figuring out what makes a great meeting and unpacking the tools and techniques facilitators use to make meetings valuable, maybe even something people in your organization would look forward to.
Planning is about making decisions. These decisions are sometimes technical, and sometimes strategic. From zoning regulations to comprehensive or master planning, the Stuart Group team assembled for your project will provide the expertise and experience necessary to guide technical decision-making and/or create planning documents that the community is proud of.
Finding the right group of professionals for any project can be challenging for any organization. This challenge is often unmet, creating an unstable foundation that threatens the success of the project. Stuart Group will spend time understanding the vision and purpose of your project and work with leaders to weave these ideas into a request for proposals that attracts the right professionals to the task. Our team can also guide the selection process using a framework of quantitative and qualitative techniques that ensure the right team is brought under contract.
An organization’s trajectory revolves around its mission, vision, and values. Stuart Group will assess the value and function of these components or your organization and work with you to create something that connects with and inspires people inside and outside the organization.
Facilitation is about getting people to their best thinking. Whether the situation requires a motivator, guide, or peacemaker we would like to be there for you. Stuart Group professional facilitators are neutral, experienced, and care about creating fun sessions that matter. Regardless of the size of the group, topic, or goal, engaging a trained facilitator to help the group figure things out together is important in both the process and product.
Stuart Group is passionate about work of nonprofit organizations in southwest Pennsylvania. We believe in the infinite possibilities of engaged board members, strategic leadership, and exceptional governance. The Stuart Group team assembled for your project will work with you to build organizational capacity by guiding assessments, enabling strategic thinking, shaping board and staff recruitment activities, developing fundraising strategies, operationalizing good governance, creating and retooling organizational and program frameworks, and designing powerful board orientations.
Good planning means engaging people. The Stuart Group team assembled for your project will help you identify the right people to engage and the best way to include them in the conversation. We believe that effective community outreach is about meeting people where they are, eliminating barriers and making participation fun.
Colleges and universities are recognized anchors in their communities. Whether the campus is embedded, suburban, or enclave (by themselves), institutions can be powerful forces in the well-being of the places in which they are located. The Stuart Group approach to engagement is focused on connecting colleges and universities to these places. This “place-based” approach is one of the biggest shifts in higher education over the last several decades. The team assembled for your project will assist in assessing current engagement activities, pulling internal and external stakeholder groups together, and developing new forms of hyperlocal engagement that transform the university community relationship, the health of neighboring communities, and the educational experience of students.
It is easy for organizations to lose their way from year to year. Pulling leaders together to reconnect with existing strategic ideas or define new ones is a critical component of keeping things moving in the right direction. The Stuart Group Touch-Up is a compressed version of a larger strategic process, that consists of one or two sessions designed to zero in on the most important projects and initiatives over the next year and develop to-do lists around these priorities. Talk with us about building something to focus your municipality, department, or team for the next 12 months.
Seeing information represented spatially enables informed decision-making. Whether it is mapping service areas, zoning districts, or event locations, the Stuart Group team assembled for your project will introduce new ways to visualize spatial data. Our mapping products are intentionally different. Talk with us about new ways to analyze local phenomena, improving the look, function, and purpose of your existing maps, or creating web-based interactive mapping platforms that connect people to important information.
SGC provides the expertise and experience necessary to guide decision-making and create planning document that the community is proud of.
SGC is skilled identifying stakeholders and designing outreach and engagement strategies that get people involved.
SGC will bring a placed-based approach to university-community planning that revolves around connecting institutions to the places in which they exist.
SGC will bring a placed-based approach to university-community planning that revolves around connecting institutions to the places in which they exist.