Welcome
We are a group of management consultants committed to making a significant impact on the management and governance of nonprofit organisations and their funders.
We aim to make a substantial and sustainable improvement in the performance of nonprofit organisations by:
- Delivering top quality consultancy
- Combining the culture and values of the sector with leading edge business skills
- Developing and disseminating innovative and effective management practices
- Making significant contributions to policy development for the sector.
Over the last 20 years we have worked with more than 800 organisations and built a reputation for clarity and quality. We have worked with every type of nonprofit organisation and we focus particularly on:
- Voluntary organisations
- Housing and care organisations
- International development organisations
- Government departments and Non Departmental Public bodies
- Foundations and funders.
All our assignments are tailor made to suit each client’s circumstances.
When you have had a look at this site, please do give us a call for a preliminary conversation about how we might be able to assist your organisation.
Case Study: Sense
We have worked with the Chairs and Chief Executives of Sense on strategy, performance
and management over the last 20 years, helping it to grow from a small self help organisation to a £50m a year
provider of services to people who are both deaf and blind.
Sometimes we help with the development of their 3 - 5 year strategic plans and sometimes we have worked on management
structures and processes. Currently we are working with senior managers on performance management and how to
articulate the difference they make to peoples' lives.
We only help when needed, so every now and then they call us and we do a project, drawing on our understanding of the organisation's history and development.
It's not just having an external perspective, it's the probing questions that, a few seconds after they've been asked, reveal a way forward. That takes experience and knowledge of the sector. That's what Mike and Compass have provided.
Tony Best, Sense.
News
Shout about Success
Responding to demands for greater transparency of charity performance,
Compass offers a service to assist organisations to create honest
and meaningful reports of their overall achievements on their web sites on a regular basis.
Organisations work alone or in groups over a twelve month period to define what success means for them, to
determine how it should be reported and to gather the required information across the whole
organisation in a regular and systematic way.
The result is a knowledge management system that can be used to inform Annual Reports and
Reviews, internal performance reports, funding applications and to promote achievements of web sites.
Call Debbie Emerson on 01628 478561 for further details.
Assessing Board Performance
We can carry out a systematic assessment of an organisation‘s
Board performance using our exclusive Self Assessment Questionnaire. Tried and tested on a range of many
organisations over years, the assessment covers performance of key governance functions, performance
of the board as a team, individual performance, personal performance feedback from other board members and the
performance of committees.
Assessments usually end with a board workshop to review the results and establish objectives for improving performance.