For Impact

Blog

Top Challenges for Organizations

Daily Nuggets | | Nick Fellers

Small or young organizations (for profit / nonprofit alike) often identify FUNDING as their top challenge – until the organization really figures out a working funding model (or business model).

At that point, a top challenge becomes the RIGHT PEOPLE. The limiting factor to more IMPACT/INCOME is finding the right people!

(Of course, there are many challenges but these are the two constants in our work with hundreds of organizations.)

To those two, I would add a third top-challenge, self-identified by large organizations and that’s COMMUNICATION.

There are some intentional parallels:

Impact
Drives
Income
Communication
People
Funding


The Suddes Group has really focused on helping the sector around these three challenges, developing solutions in these areas:

  • STORY. Hopefully it’s obvious that we’re all about STORY. The organization’s story guides strategy, talent, sales, and much more. Having the right story frames and simplifies communication.
  • TALENT. Helping organizations find the right talent. It’s interesting, we used to stay away from helping with hiring / search, instead focusing on the sales process. But we’ve learned that very few people are really thinking about a sales model and finding the right talent to lead / sell / support. We help organizations find the right people! It’s all about For Impact Talent!
    Note: To that end, we’re going to start posting positions at ForImpact.org.
    To learn more about FI Talent Solutions contact Jessica Gemm.
  • SALES. Helping organizations commit to sales…. the sales process… sales model… sales culture… to build and maximize relationships. We started in 1983 by providing sales-based campaign solutions. We WERE (and in many cases still are) the organization’s sales team. Today, we provide training and coaching to organizations throughout the US and the world in order to build their own (ongoing) sales cultures.