“Sean’s expertise and guidance was key in helping us move ahead with our strategy. His feedback and advice was clear, realistic and insightful.”
— Executive Director, Heartwood Centre for Youth Development
In addition to core activities including strategic planning, design thinking, engagement, and messaging, we offer several unique tools and processes to help you achieve your goals.
In-Person Strategic Conversation Session
SKC Clarity Session. A strategic conversation process that is interactive, rooted in your unique context, and yes, enjoyable. It helps get you to where you need to be… even if you don’t know what your exact destination is yet.
SKC has developed a sequential process to help you have the discussions you need to clarify your goals, plans, and aspirations. We’ll explore:
What is: context and discussing the complexity
What if: new ideas and possibilities
What works: what is realistic, what achieves the best outcomes?
What next: how do we move forward?
The sessions are one to three days long, and take an assets-based approach. We want to look at what’s strong, not just what’s wrong.
These conversations are lively, interactive, and deliberately old-school (flipcharts, breakout groups, and unique in-person activities).
Remote Communications Support
SKC State of Your Story communications audit. An affordable, easy, and effective way for you to have experienced consultants review and analyze your organization’s storytelling and overall narrative.
During our 5-step process, we’ll ask:
Is your nonprofit organization as widely known as you’d like it to be?
Are you telling your story effectively?
Are your communications efforts getting into the hearts, minds, and wallets of your target audiences?
Are you featuring messages and telling stories that make long-lasting connections?
This is work that often gets put on the back burner due to the realities of the non-profit world. But it’s essential — how you communicate matters to non-profits.
In-Person or Online Training Workshop
There are 7 ‘Cs’ in Communications. In a world of A.I., human-centred communications oversight is vital. This ‘soft skills’ training is on good practices when engaging with external and internal audiences.
Do you have a team that leans to the technical side? Do they have to communicate to non-technical audiences? Do they have to manage difficult conversations? This interactive half-day workshop will explore the 7 Cs of solid communications:
Clear
Controlled
Constructive
Clarifying
Calm
Collaborative
Considerate
Communications Guide
Good Question! Guide. Strategic questions your nonprofit should ask when crafting a communications plan.
This is a short workbook on profitable conversations for nonprofit organizations. It’s the first in the Good Question! series of practical guides that aim to help small nonprofits and community groups be more strategic by asking strategic questions.
Or put another way, this is a quick read on why it’s better to have rough answers to the right questions than detailed answers to the wrong questions. This guide covers:
An introduction to communications planning
Communications planning fundamentals in brief
Key characteristics of a solid comms plan
The twelve steps to a communications plan
Crisis communications.