Services
All of Constellate’s offerings are designed to be tailored to the unique needs and strengths of each client organization. Within each of the following areas we can structure our work together so that it best matches your organization’s situation, capacity, and budget, whether through coaching for leaders or teams, consulting projects with defined deliverables, meeting facilitation and design, trainings and workshops, or a combination of these approaches.
Change Mapping
This is where we chart the course. Maybe you have a North Star, or maybe you need to find it. Constellate is your co-cartographer, supplying the tools and knowledge to plan out the route that suits you best. Projects in this area support planning processes of any scale, from organization-wide strategic planning to program service changes, and include:
Change Mapping Client Example:
The Director and Board of a historically women-serving arts organization wanted to explore adjusting their mission to include nonbinary artists in their services. They weren’t all in agreement about what this change would mean for them and whether they were ready to make it. They needed help getting started and mapping the road ahead.
Developing strategic plans and business plans
Designing a new initiative
Planning changes to existing programs or departments
Reorganizing or restructuring your organization
Preparing for growth
Change Navigation
We’re on the journey. Change is happening – maybe you planned it, or maybe you didn’t choose it, but you’re in the thick of it and Constellate is here to help you reach your destination. Projects in this area often focus on change management and project management, and include:
Implementing a strategic plan , business plan, or new initiative
Course-correcting a change that is already underway
Measuring progress towards implementation and/or impact goals (outputs and outcomes)
Coaching and thought partnership for leaders managing change
Change Navigation Client Example:
A new Executive Director of a direct service organization was in the midst of budgeting and preparing for the coming fiscal year, but also had changes she wanted to make to the organization’s operational structure and fundraising strategies. She needed help with finalizing her vision for these changes and implementing them alongside existing planning process and ongoing programming.
Change Mindsets
Successful adaptation is as much about how we think as it is about what we do. Without changing the beliefs, ways of thinking, narratives, fears, and expectations of the people involved, even the most strategic change will be challenging – if not impossible – to implement and maintain. To that end, Constellate offers workshops, trainings, and coaching to support clients with changes of any scope or type, including on the following topics.
Change management for leaders and teams
Project management for successful change processes
Strategic adaptation in a changing nonprofit landscape
Change Mindsets Client Example:
A busy program team was getting ready to make adjustments to their services, which had not always gone well in the past. They wanted to learn how to use change management practices this time around so that they could spend less time troubleshooting issues and resolving confusion down the road.