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Carter McNamara

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Checklist to Terminate a Consulting Project

If you and your client decide to terminate the project because it was satisfactorily completed,…

Consulting & Freelancing

Welcome to the Free Management Library’s blogs!

The list of the blogs is on the right side of each page. You are…

Pro bono, online program to learn strategic planning facilitation

The Consultants Development Institute is offering a complete, online series to teach how to facilitate…

Business Planning

Single-Project and Multi-Project Formats of Action Learning

In the early 1980s, I started facilitating Action Learning where all set members were working…

Leadership Skills

Checklists – A Valuable Tool for the Nonprofit – Part III

In my previous two posts, I’ve suggested that checklists can be very valuable in helping…

Financing & Loans

Checklists – A Valuable Tool for the Nonprofit – Part II

In January 2009, a US Airways jet taking off from LaGuardia airport jet hit a…

Financing & Loans

Checklists – A Valuable Tool for the Nonprofit – Part I

Are you feeling overwhelmed? I think for many of us, that answer is, “Yes” –…

Financing & Loans

Starting Planning with Attention to Mission Statement (and Brainstorming Goals) — Is that Best?

It still seems common that many facilitators start strategic planning by having planners attend first…

Business Planning

What is Group Coaching? How Do You Develop It? (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 1, we described group coaching, starting with a description of coaching and then…

Leadership Skills

Extensive, Free, Practical Online Resources for Action Learners, Facilitators and Coaches

(The aim of this blog has always been to provide highly practical guidelines, tools and…

Leadership Skills

What is Group Coaching? How Do You Develop It ? (Part 1 of 2)

(In this Part 1 of 2, we will describe group coaching. In Part 2, we…

Leadership Skills

Action Learning Certification — There is No Independent Certifying Body (Should There Be?)

The field of personal and professional coaching has a widely respected and accepted, independent certifying…

Leadership Skills

My Concern About the Use of Strategic Planning “Templates”

It seems that the use of “templates” in strategic planning is on the rise. People…

Business Planning

CFC Campaign Extended to January 15, 2014

Due to the government shutdown in October, which occurred just as many of the CFC…

Financing & Loans

The Combined Federal Campaign — The Rule of 7 is now The Rule of 21

In marketing and media awareness terms, the “Rule of 7” states that before a customer…

Financing & Loans

CFC Fundraising: Thoughts at Mid-Campaign

Thank you for what you do. If you’re reading this blog, I’m going to make…

Financing & Loans