#results Archives - Results 1st

Karissa MayerMarch 9, 2022Business Corporative Fundraising Goals Leading Nonprofit Strategy

Paying for Results…or the motivation to achieve them

Hal’s blog-I once worked with a Connecticut foundation whose grantee ran an afterschool program for struggling middle school students. We had been provided a list of students who did significantly better in school during the year they attended this program.

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Hal WilliamsJanuary 5, 2022Business Community Building Corporative Goals Nonprofit Strategy

Where and How to Scale Nonprofit Success

Hal’s Blog -Over breakfast recently with a very smart foundation leader, John Annis, we discussed our shared interest in growing successful programs and organizations.

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Hal WilliamsJuly 15, 2020Business

Musings on Milestone Management

I spent two hours on January 10, 2020, morning with 80 plus bright eyed leaders and staff of nonprofits in Manatee County, Florida. Our subject was Milestone Management. Simply put, what do you look at that tells you that your participants are making progress that forecasts they will get to a result—whether a job, a house, grade level reading, or anything else important. I was again...

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Hal WilliamsJune 9, 2020Business

Riding for your Brand

Marc Chardon, the bright and inquisitive former leader of Blackbaud Inc, and I wrote several pieces together that will be featured on this site. One theme we call, “Riding for the brand.” Brands we note, do not establish a class or cohort of groups. They exist to define and protect the distinctiveness of an organization, whether a cattle ranch in Wyoming or a drug treatment organization in...

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Hal WilliamsMarch 15, 2020Business

Attributes and Achievement

I keep seeing writings that speak to the power of attributes in forecasting achievement in most jobs. The latest was sent by a colleague at the Humana Foundation who had read a piece by Jeff Nally, head of the Nally Group, which focused on learnings from Dr. Paul Brown, a professor at the Monarch Business School in Switzerland. He summarizes Dr. Brown: “We’re hiring for the wrong...

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Hal WilliamsJanuary 8, 2020Business

Energy as the Scarcest Resource

Clear on core values and mission…strong on culture…presence of strategic plan…high-performing board…outstanding leadership… clear policies…, competent technology. Many attributes define successful organizations. In the rosters of qualities of high performing groups, however, we seldom see a factor that may actually be the most important ingredient in predicting sustained success. The word...

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Hal WilliamsJanuary 7, 2020Business

Evolving into an “Outcome Guide”

When Consulting Just Doesn’t Fit the Narrative of Our Results First Work As a Results First leader, I am different than an every day consultant. I chose the term “Outcome Guide” for six specific reasons: Guiding is in a result context. You don’t need a guide to wonder through a field or a forest—whether literal or figurative. You need a guide to reach a...

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Hal WilliamsJanuary 8, 2018Business

120 minute meeting–60 minute bladder

I have long preached that meetings need agendas and purposes far less than they need targets. What has to be achieved for this 30 minute gathering of eight persons to be wildly successful? I can now report that over 50 clients using this approach report that their average meeting time has been cut in half and that far more participants report that their meeting time was...

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