As well as training, Empower offers a range of services to voluntary and community sector organisations and regeneration partnerships.
We have substantial experience in engaging even the most marginalised members of our community and our experienced team work to ensure that everyone is heard.
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We take the whole team along and ensure resistance is kept to a minimum and all staff are engaged and valued.
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We have within our team professional, qualified coaches and mentors who can provide individual and team support through executive coaching, life coaching and mentoring.
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Empower has a substantial track record working with disengaged and recalcitrant communities to overcome exclusion and re-engage non participants.
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There are occassions when a project or organisation experiences critical issues which require swift and decisive action.
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Empower can provide Equality Impact Assessments either to establish the potential impact of a policy or proposal or ensure that current service delivery is meeting the needs of all service users and reflects take up across the community.
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Using our expertise in Results Based Accountability ™ we will help organisations measure the real impact of their delivery and not simply the amount delivered.
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Empower has planned and facilitated a number of high profile conferences and we can help make your event a success.
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The Empower team can provide professional finance and delivery expertise to establish how feasible a project is before a group invests valuable time and resources into it.
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Let Empower work with staff and trustees to help you develop a forward strategy which will enable you to move from one source of funding to another and develop income streams to secure long term sustainability.
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This intervention is challenging but also empowering and has already had a profound impact on a number of boards.
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Whether the organisation is just starting out, or faces a particular HR issue, we work with staff and trustees to develop knowledge and capacity, ensuring that you have the proper procedures in place to manage staff and staff issues correctly.
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We can help organisations generate an entrepreneurial approach to trading and stand out in a crowded market place.
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Do you have a post that you are having difficulty filling? Or need someone on a flexible basis to cover maternity or sickness?
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Empower can provide highly experienced project managers on a short, medium or long term basis to help you respond to a range of issues.
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We can pull the project back responding to slippage in order to hand over a successful project to incoming staff.
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Empower can work with boards, CEO's and whole staff teams to establish a sales and marketing strategy for the organisation.
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Empower bring their commercial expertise to the Not for Profit sector providing advice and guidance in preparation of strategic business plans.
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Empower provides a wide range of team building activities to provide a bespoke event for your team.
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Occasionally trustee boards become negative or ineffective and we can intervene to work with the organisation to help the board refocus and evaluate their position.
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I finished the last blog with a quote and have started this one with another. The ‘title’ of this piece is a quote from the film 13th Warrior, described by Time Out in the following terms: “At its best, this achieves the beauty and grandeur of a Kurosawa epic - at its worst, however, it feels like a Python remake of The Vikings.”
Published by Natasha James and Julie Smith of Breaking Barriers Community Arts on 13/06/2013 View this entry
Accountants within charities are important ... well I would say that wouldn’t I! But realistically they have to be important. I have heard service departments of charities grumbling that “finance rules this organisation” and whilst finance shouldn’t rule they should certainly have a hand in ruling.
Published by Sarah Case FCA DChA of Broomfield & Alexander on 12/06/2013 View this entry