Executive Leadership and Facilitation
Expertise:
- Strategic Business Planning
- Facilitation for Meetings, Retreats & Team Building
- Needs Assessment & Strategy Development
- Executive Transitions & Succession Planning
- Board Governance
Marcia Hodges Consulting, LLC provides organizations with critical leadership and perspective during times of transition and at moments of strategic business decisions. These are catalyst moments that can create real change and boost an organization’s momentum. With more than 30 years of executive experience, and a national certification in group facilitation, Marcia Hodges infuses organizations with a calming, supportive and knowledgeable presence while addressing organizational challenges and continuing to meet key objectives.
Is your Strategic Business Plan a little dusty? Are you concerned about the organization’s future for the next 3-5 years? Are you considering a new business venture?
Effective strategic planning is essential in this fast-paced business climate.
Using a targeted, participatory approach that clearly addresses the strategic priorities, while incorporating those priorities into ongoing work, is a key element in Marcia’s work. The approaches she draws upon are realistic and take current trends and external market analysis into account. These dynamics help enliven any group and ensure that all the participants are engaged. The result is all key players are committed to heading the same direction.
Do you have a retreat or meeting coming up that needs a new approach?
Marcia facilitates large and small group discussions resulting in a wide array of outcomes, based on what the leadership desires. For example, in conversations addressing controversial topics, it is essential that all the parties be heard. Other discussion objectives include creating a consensus or an action plan. Based on advanced planning with the group management, each facilitated discussion is intentionally designed to achieve the outcome that the leadership specifies.
When might a needs assessment be helpful to your organization?
You know there are multiple issues at hand, but there does not seem to be a clear path forward. By bringing in a skilled, neutral third-party to ask key questions, the most important issues can come to light, and it becomes evident which needs must be addressed the most quickly. Marcia is skilled at a variety of methods to arrive at this outcome, which is ultimately one of strategy development and implementation. She can help you determine which approach will be the most beneficial in reaching these objectives.
Do you have a complex project that will span several months or years to address? Are you looking to implement major culture shifts?
Marcia has a network of professionals with whom she collaborates that could help you implement projects or changes. Check out the Center for Strategic Facilitation at strategicfacilitation.com and the Kolbe Company at koblecompany.com.
When would an organization benefit from executive transition support?
A time of executive transition provides an excellent opportunity to assess and reflect on the right skills needed for the next evolutionary step of an organization, whether the cause is a sudden departure of a key executive leader or a well-planned one. Marcia helps organizations create transition plans that engage key players. This can launch the new leader into the organizational culture with a keen awareness of agreed upon priorities that will energize the entire organization.
Does your nonprofit organization’s Board of Directors need help with recruiting new members, creating clarity of expectations among all its members, or orienting new members to the organization and the Board?
Boards of Directors are guardians of the nonprofit organization, responsible to the community for ensuring that their organization’s vision and strategic planning objectives are realized, and that the nonprofit’s financial processes are soundly in place. Board leadership is an acquired skill; good board members are developed through careful training and mentoring. Marcia Hodges understands that the role of the board varies depending on the organization’s business model and stage of development. She can help you take the board to the next step in becoming a dynamic and highly-functional group—based on YOUR vision.
Is your organization ready for a Strategic Business Plan? Are you looking for increased engagement from your staff and stakeholders? Contact Marcia Hodges for a free one-hour consultation. Learn how she might help you meet the challenges and move your organization forward.