Organizational Assessment

When would an organizational assessment be helpful?

Whenever significant change is contemplated, it is important to make sure that it will fit with the current organizational environment and, most importantly, meet the future needs of the organization. Changes that would be helped by an organizational assessment can include: adding or removing a position, redefining job responsibilities, recruiting new board members, recruiting senior management, adding new programs, moving to new space, etc.

How would an assessment be conducted?

The scope of the assessment will be determined by the change being contemplated. In creating a new position, for example, it would be necessary to review the needs of the aspects of the organization that position will affect. The needs of the programs, the supervisory relationships, the support systems will need to be described to be able to specify the job description and qualifications. In recruiting new board members it might, for example, to first analyze the organizations priorities and strategic directions to determine the board skills and resources that will be needed to support those directions.

Who would conduct that assessment?

Ideally this would be done by staff who are most knowledgeable in the impacted areas under the guidance of a consultant. The role of the consultant would be to direct the assessment, integrate the different findings, and, for certain areas, conduct the analysis themselves.

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