Introducing...
We now offer a toolkit with solutions for strategy and response challenges facing teams like yours. Our solutions—from issues management tools and program maturity assessments to concise frameworks and message maps—support your team in developing a clear strategy, responding effectively at critical moments, and fostering respect for both process and progress.
Your challenges...
You understand the pressures that come from the operating environment and your many stakeholders, including your own employees, executives, and board. You may be asked to defend your department, strategy, programs, or results. You could be encouraged to achieve next-level performance. You might be asked for a recommendation on whether to respond to calls for brand activism relating to a social or political issue in the news. You may also be under pressure to provide a succinct overview of strategy and messaging – under a tight timeframe. You might experience turnover, or go through a reorganization, which comes with new expectations. Or, your organization might merge with, or acquire, another entity, resulting in the need to refine strategy or messaging.
...our solutions
Our toolkit provides a growing set of solutions to help you deliver recommendations and results more efficiently. We have built the tools, solutions, and shortcuts that would have made our jobs easier when working in a large organization. Are you under pressure to refine your community involvement strategy? Are you being pressed to achieve next-level performance? Do you need a strategic framework to communicate your strategy on a single page? A message map to refine core messaging in alignment with organization strategy? A policy and decision tool to guide your organization’s response to issues, challenges, and social or political events? Or a logic model and framework through which to begin the process of impact measurement? Our tools are here to meet your needs.
Learn more about the tools
Respond is a robust issues management software solution that helps you quickly review an issue, allegation, or challenge, considering the context, the impacts, the risks, and sensitivities – from a range of perspectives. Responses drive an executive summary: a concise results page that summarizes the issue, whether you should speak up, what your stance and posture might be, what you might say, and the actions you might take.
Assess is a solution that helps teams discover where they are in terms of maturity, assessing over forty different elements of a community relations, corporate philanthropy, or citizenship team, ranging from strategy and engagement to governance, systems, workflow, team size, and budget. Responses drive a ranking on each element, along with an overall rating. The process consists of a detailed Q&A and interview session, and results are provided along with recommendations to help your team move to a higher level of performance.
Align helps you deliver a succinct framework, summarizing your community involvement strategy and priorities in alignment with your organization’s mission, values, employee engagement programs, and core messaging. It is perfect for board level presentations and executive briefings. With support from OnPurpose, your team completes a questionnaire that identifies any gaps and then drives an initial, editable draft of your citizenship framework. Once finalized, your strategy is simplified and aligned with your organization’s core messaging.
Message helps you develop and refine corporate messaging into a tight platform and message map with proof points, by audience type. The result is a beautiful handout that shares corporate messaging at a glance, perfect for corporate communications needs, executives who want to stay on message, new hires, media relations, meeting prep, and other key events and activities. With support from OnPurpose, your team completes a questionnaire that drives an initial, editable draft of your message map. Once finalized, your team will be aligned in your storytelling, across segments, departments, and functions.
Stakeholders are critical to an organization’s success. They represent a broad range of interests and perspectives: They may support or oppose projects or initiatives; be influential in the places where you have operations; they may hold official positions in government; or they might simply be affected by your products, services, or decisions.
Engage drives purposeful engagement, with a policy, plan, process, and mapping tool that can make all the difference – from building facilities or infrastructure to rebranding or launching new products.
This tool is in the early stages of development. If you are interested, drop us a line and we’ll communicate availability once complete.
If you’re responsible for external engagement of any kind, you understand the pressures that come from the operating environment and your many stakeholders, including your own employees, executives, and board. The external environment is challenging, polarized, and can leave your organization open to criticism and ‘gotcha’ moments.
De-Risk is a methodical approach to examining core aspects of your department’s operations and putting into place the right governance, controls, and documentation to de-risk your function.
This tool is in the early stages of development. If you are interested, drop us a line and we’ll communicate availability once complete.
