What the MaxCI Assessment© will do for you.
- Increase capacity to raise funds
- Grant application advantage when results attached
- Leverage to recruit and retain board members because you know where you are, what you need and how they can help
- Set organizational priorities for board and staff
- Reach organizational potential with ease, clarity & economy
- Establish a more solid relationship with your grant-makers
- Insure your organization's survival and growth
- Improve nine critical business functions
- Maximize the delivery of your programs and services.
A well managed, successful and convincing organization that strives to reach its potential greatly increases its chances to succeed during these precarious economic times. You need every advantage available.
Does Organizational Size or Capacity Matter?
Are some organizations too small to get value from the Assessment? Absolutely not.
Are some organizations too large or too sophisticated to benefit from the Assessment? Once an organization peaks, the danger is to become complacent or believe that success will continue automatically regardless of external circumstances or, worse yet, an unapparent vulnerability exists within the organization. The Assessment results may help.
Increasing capacity for larger organizations
If your assessment score is close to your potential score at the most advanced Levels (D and E scenarios), that is good news and congratulations! Not only is your organization on solid footing, now you can improve your organizational capacity in most every Function, that is, to take the next step toward renewal.
FUNCTIONS & LEVELS
The most successful not-for-profit organizations are managed like any for-profit business. The core of the MaxCI Assessment consists of nine major business activities or “Functions.” They are: Mission Statement, Board of Directors, Business Plan, Administration, Financial, Programs/Services, Marketing, Fund Development and Volunteers.
Every business Function in the Assessment has four-to-six scenarios or Levels that describe the “status quo” or the present-day growth level of an organization. The Levels begin with the basic elements, and each subsequent Level is more developed than the previous.
To systematically and efficiently accomplish your mission and objectives, “parallel growth” in each Function is recommended.
ASSUMPTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS
It does not matter whether your organization is just emerging or very mature, you will receive a set of specific Assumptions & Recommendations (between 5 and 8 pages in length) that will guide your organization to the next level of growth and closer to your organizational potential.
IPSATIVE SCORING: Compares your organization to itself – to its potential
Your organizational comparative score, or ipsative, is one that compares your organization to itself, to its potential – and not to others.
Now, in addition to the organizational comparative score, each of the nine business Functions (see "Functions & Levels" above) will also have its own comparative score. You can quickly observe the weakest and the strongest functions which can guide you toward creating an action plan.
The comparative scores for each Function, when combined with your set of Assumptions & Recommendations, gives your action plan achievable, logical and affordable steps to reach your organizational potential. (Please click HERE below to view a random sample of the Assessment results.)
Why is your comparative, or ipsative, score score important? Your growth – maybe survival – is predicated on your potential. Our scoring mechanism is a measurement of your potential and it may supersede the importance of demographics, budget size, resources, and/or changes in the board of directors or senior staff.
Your score is not compared to other organizations because your organization is not like others. This score is quite the opposite of a “credit score” used when buying a house, that is, a total point score is not the definitive criterion.
Comparative scoring is akin to Organizational GeneticsTM: Given your organizational circumstances, your goal is to realize your potential and not compare your organization to others. To compare a lake shell museum in Superior, Wisconsin to a sea shell museum in Miami, Florida serves no purpose because the organizational genetics are “seas apart,” i.e., widely different. Your potential is “where you are compared to where you could be.”
An essential value of your ipsative score is that it gives you the opportunity to favorably compete for funds. It has leveled the playing field for awarding of grants between large and small not-for-profit organizations.
Why Take The Assessment?
It is like an organizational GPS: you know where your organization is today, decide where you want to go, and it will help you to get there. After the MaxCI Assessment is completed and you receive the results – your ipsative score and a set of specific Assumptions & Recommendations for all Functions – you will have identified the needs and capabilities of your organization, and then put the Recommendations into real world actions. Your ipsative score and your set of Assumptions & Recommendations will remain confidential. The fee is $475 and one hour of your time. The results will guide you to significant increases in funding and will help you to reach your organizational capacity. Compare this fee to the cost of hiring consultants to achieve similar results.
Who Should Complete The Assessment?
If just one person is to complete the organizational self-assessment, it should be the Executive Director or the President of the Board of Directors. It is acceptable that both, sitting side-by-side, complete the Assessment.
Ideally, the entire board of directors and each senior staff completes the Assessment independently of the others, and then convene to discuss their individual and confidential results and perceptions. The primary benefit is that while discussing perceptions, the board members develop a deeper understanding of the organization, which then leads to a coalescing of the organization’s board of directors, staff, volunteers and stakeholders.
The fee is significantly discounted for multiple users within the same organization.
To view a random sample outcome – the organizational comparative scoring (ipsative) and the comparative scoring for each of the business Functions, and the accompanying sets of Assumptions and Recommendations for three business Functions of the MaxCI Assessment, click HERE.
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