Our Approach

The Mission Spark Way

At Mission Spark, we inform our methods with proven best practices, thought leadership, and the latest innovative thinking.

We listen and learn about your current situation and jointly brainstorm about your future challenges and opportunities.

We have extensive experience working with social sector organizations across Colorado, and always work to advance the recommendations of Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence in Colorado.

Our Process

1. Inquiry

Opportunity Statement: What are you trying to achieve?
Stakeholder feedback: What do your core constituencies think? What can they offer that can improve how you approach and deliver your work?
Situational Analysis: What’s going on in the world around you that
influences and impacts your work?

2. Strategic Direction

Sense-Making: What does it all mean? Lots of sources and information swirling around brought to relevant insights for your organization.
Inspirational vision of success: Where do we want to be in the future? What can we influence?
Goal Setting: What primary strategies can we employ to move us closer to our vision? How will we know we’ve achieved out goals?

3. Ideas to Action

Narrative Plan: How will you communicate your vision and direction to others? A narrative and visual representation of you primary direction and purpose can help.
Roadmap: Where are you headed? What action steps will we take, by when, and with what resources?
Bright ideas for Implementation: A lot of bright ideas on what and how to implement have emerged — we make sure you prioritize, vet and are ready to implement.

4. Early Implementation

Coaching: Developing individual and team capacity to develop as leaders and change agents in service of your larger vision and plan.
Training: Identifying and supporting needed skills through training and supports, defining roles, and setting the effort up for success.
Operationalizing: We help you get early work done to keep the course of a new path.
Supportive Tools: Development of tools and approaches that can make your strategic work easier and more salient.

5. Evaluate & Learn

Reflecting: What did we learn together through this process that can
translate into new habits, approaches and processes for your organization to drive success in the future.
Measuring Impact: What do we know has changed as a result of this effort, over the near, medium and longer term.

Our Services

Evaluation & Assessment

We'll partner with you to determine, understand and share your impact through best practice research, assessment of existing efforts, and the creation of measurable, achievable evaluation plans.

Leadership Development & Executive Coaching

We'll help you develop strong leaders, build high-functioning teams, create a supportive culture, and navigate challenging situations.

Facilitation & Training

We'll help your organization become more sustainable, adaptable, innovative, and effective through expertly-led collaborative processes and applied skills building.

Strategic Consulting

We’ll help you define an inspiring vision, set achievable goals, create a sound plan for how to reach them, and support you during early implementation.