Organizational Effectiveness

Becoming a highly effective organization requires more than the right structure. High-performing nonprofits exhibit strengths across five areas—leadership, decision making and structure, people, work processes and systems, and culture. We help our clients identify their organizational strengths and weaknesses, and develop action plans to increase the ability of their organizations to maximize impact.

Our Services

Strategy and Organization Consulting

Every Bridgespan strategy engagement with clients identifies the organizational requirements to achieve impact. We help clients identify the changes in their organization required for successful execution of their strategy, and develop actions plans to increase effectiveness.

Group Consulting: Increasing Organizational Effectiveness

Bridgespan offers a consulting service which engages a group of nonprofit leadership teams to identify their organizational strengths and weaknesses, and to develop action plans to increase their effectiveness.

Featured Insights

The Effective Organization: Five Questions to Translate Leadership into Strong Management

Effective organizations create results, and to be fully effective, nonprofits must exhibit strengths in five core organizational areas—leadership, decision making and structure, people, work processes and systems, and culture.

RAPID Decision Making: What It Is, Why We Like It, and How to Get the Most Out of It

Decision making can be challenging for nonprofit leadership teams. But using tools—like RAPID®—can help nonprofit leaders and managers identify the activities that must occur in order for a decision to be made well.