Services

When the problem is how the organization works, not what the staff know.

AAHE provides strategic planning, organizational development, process improvement, change management, capacity building, and technical assistance for organizations that are accountable to a funder, a board, a contracting officer, or a community.

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What AAHE delivers

Scope

Strategic planning

Facilitated planning that ends in a document the organization actually uses: priorities, owners, timeframes, and a way to tell whether it is being followed.

Organizational development

Structure, roles, decision rights, and the working practices that determine whether good people produce good results.

Process improvement

Finding where work stalls, doubles back, or depends on one person, and redesigning the process so it does not.

Change management

Bringing people through a change rather than announcing it to them, which is the difference between a change that holds and one that reverts within a year.

Capacity building

Building the internal capability an organization needs to sustain a program after the engagement ends, which is what most funders are actually asking for when they fund technical assistance.

Technical assistance

Direct, hands on support against a defined gap, delivered to the organization or to the businesses and partners it serves.

Performance improvement

Defining what performance means for the organization, measuring it, and closing the gap.

How it is delivered

Delivery formats

A discrete engagement against a defined question, with a written deliverable
Facilitated sessions with a leadership team or board
Technical assistance delivered to an organization’s clients under a funded program, which is how this service is most often procured in the public sector
Ongoing advisory across a performance period

Engagements begin with a requirement review, and the deliverable list and acceptance criteria are agreed in writing before work starts.

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Audience

Who this is for

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Government agencies and publicly accountable organizations
Economic development programs and their operators
Nonprofit and community organizations
Workforce organizations
Small and growing firms receiving assistance through a funded program
Prime contractors subcontracting a consulting or technical assistance scope

Past performance in this service area

Work performed in management consulting and organizational development

Orlando MBDA through 3D Strategic Management, Business Development Consulting and Technical Assistance. Consulting and technical assistance for minority owned businesses, including established firms pursuing growth and scale, spanning financial readiness, access to capital, contracting opportunities, growth strategy, business development, and capacity building.

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What the client receives

Deliverables

A written deliverable against the agreed scope, whether that is a plan, a process design, an assessment, or a recommendation set
Facilitated sessions where the work requires the organization’s own people in the room
An implementation path, with owners and sequence, rather than recommendations with no route to action
Reporting in the client’s required format where the engagement sits inside a funded program

Project and Program Management, where the requirement is to run the program rather than redesign the organization
Leadership and Professional Development, where the requirement is developmental
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Technical Assistance, where the recipients are businesses rather than the organization itself

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