Strengthening Organizations That Serve Communities
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Core Operating Values
Accountability: the quality of our work, delivering what we promise, being open to feedback, and giving our clients every reason to trust our commitment to them.

Responsiveness: being available when you need us, being flexible, reading the dynamics of situations, acting in affirming ways and successfully rising up to unexpected challenges.

Stewardship: facilitating processes that challenge the status quo, energize collective creativity, and deepen thinking about difficult issues in order to achieve new levels of efficiency and effectiveness.

Balance: seeking solutions that fit different organizational cultures, matching and respecting organization competencies and resources, and supporting and nurturing the people who make it happen. When you work with the managance team count on us to check in with you often about how well we are doing. When you feel well cared for and find real value in our assistance, we are doing our job.
About – The Managance Way
Managance Consulting’s mission is strengthening the management of socially responsible organizations to enhance performance that changes lives and communities.

We know that serving communities takes more than strong wills and big dreams. Along with vision you need critical thinking and planning to turn those dreams into reality. You need creativity to foster solutions where others only see challenges. And you need listening skills, group process and patience to help EVERYONE on your team – from your biggest contributor to your newest employee – understand their role in your work and feel valued and energized. And of course, you need all of this on time – and on budget.

That’s where we can help. The “Mangance Way” embodies a variety of methods to help you get the results you need for continued success. And because we create many of the techniques we use, we know how to craft just the right set of services specifically for your organization.

Underlying Assumptions That Impact Our Work

  • We believe in dialogue. Our clients’ active participation in shaping the consulting process is vital to achieving desired outcomes.
  • We believe a diversity of perspectives creates more effective outcomes.
  • We believe that facilitative consulting, like facilitative leadership, actively engages our clients in building and sustaining their own capacity.
  • We know management and performance are inextricably linked. Our interventions begin with expectations that organizations can improve performance.
  • We bring cutting edge knowledge to our clients through our research capacity, our professional networks and our depth of experience.

History and Accomplishments

Since 2000 when Managance was formed we have been busy and growing in everyway. We have provided quality consulting services to more than 50 clients and provided training to more than 500 nonprofit organization staff and volunteers across the country. We have grown from a one-person consulting firm to a firm with 5 lead consultants and a group of talented support personnel. We published two articles (article 1 | article 2) in popular management journals and were featured in a few others. We also organized and conducted what we believe is the largest survey of its kind to learn about trends in leadership transition among nonprofit organizations. Executive directors from across the US and across the nonprofit sector – 2,220 total – participated to created baseline data.

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