Our TCG team recently presented at the Fifth Annual Indy Big Data Conference for the Visualization Challenge (read about some of our lessons learned here). This year’s challenge focused on improving Indiana’s talent pipeline and workforce. Participating teams were...
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Getting the Most Out of Your Needs Assessment
Recently, Transform Consulting Group finished the annual needs assessment for the Indiana Head Start State Collaboration Office (IHSSCO). Each Head Start State Collaboration Office is required to submit a needs assessment annually, which informs its strategic plan...
3 Financial Health Indicators to Track for Your Organization
Is your organization financially healthy? How do you measure the financial health of your organization? Nonprofit, education and other community organizations can look at the financial health of their organization and its relationship to your impact. Financial health...
3 Tips to Evaluate Multi-Site Programs
Evaluation is one of many services we provide for clients at Transform Consulting Group. Evaluation is important for any program because it helps organizations determine if a program is effective or if the change they set to accomplish actually occurred. In a previous...
Training Your Team
As a new employee (week 8 on the job), I’m learning more and more about Transform Consulting Group. I have found that we don’t stop working where other consultants might. The typical client engagement cycle at other consulting groups follows: Research is finished,...
Assessing the Stress Levels of Staff
It is argued that the United States is the most overworked country globally. Some individuals may be OK with working extra hours, but for many, it’s about balancing work, family, and other personal activities. The unbalance can often lead to stress, which in turn...
Benchmarking Organizations Similar To Yours
If you are looking to make a change in your organization, then you may want to start by benchmarking the practices of organizations similar to yours. There’s no need to spend your valuable time and energy reinventing the wheel. There are other organizations with...
How to Measure Character and Leadership Development
In many youth development and education programs, improving character and leadership development are common goals. Measuring them can become challenging due to their close relationship and broad understanding. This is why it is important to establish clear definitions...
Summarizing the 2018 ELAC Annual Report
Indiana’s Early Learning Advisory Committee (ELAC) recently released its new 2018 Annual Report that was discussed in this blog post. This year, a new feature was developed along with the Annual Report - an Interactive Annual Report dashboard using Tableau. This...
How Are Indiana’s Youngest Children Doing? The 2018 ELAC Annual Report Gives Insight.
Indiana’s Early Learning Advisory Committee (ELAC) just released its 2018 Annual Report—the fifth since ELAC’s inception in 2013. Annually, ELAC completes a needs assessment for the state’s early learning system and recommends solutions. The goal is to baseline where...