Organizations create lots of files. Plans, budgets, procedures, marketing pieces, grant applications, reports, timelines, proposals, memos, newsletters, meeting agendas and summaries (I hope), and on and on. You create, save, and share hundreds of files each month. As I pointed out in my last post, how we name, edit, and save theses files determines how[…]
Tools are Just Tools In our first years, The IllumiLab’s work was focused almost exclusively on building tools nonprofits could use to measure their performance (logic models, measures, data collection tools, performance management plans, etc.). This was the pain point organizations experienced, and this was the service they requested. But we soon realized that without[…]
According to our clients, one of The IllumiLab’s greatest skills is meeting management. However, there’s nothing particularly innovative or creative about how we facilitate meetings. I think it’s safe to say that our meetings: Set and accomplish objectives, Have and adhere to agendas, Start and end on time, End with a recap of what was[…]