The Commercial Charity Book
The Commercial Charity tells you everything you need to know to develop profitable earned income, and how to apply business principles and techniques to dramatically increase any non-profit’s reach and impact.
The Commercial Charity tells you everything you need to know to develop profitable earned income, and how to apply business principles and techniques to dramatically increase any non-profit’s reach and impact.
I will provide you with immediate objective feedback and advice on any decisions, ideas, opportunities and challenges you wish to discuss, enabling you to confidentially talk through your thoughts, clarify your options and alternatives, and make better, more confident decisions.
I will challenge your thinking, offer new ideas and perspectives, diffeerent frameworks for thinking and action planning, and prepare you for success every step of the way.
For CEOs who want to dramatically elevate the capability, effectiveness and performance of themselves and of their leadership teams.
An intensive development programme specifically designed for non-profits that need to rapidly improve their commercial acumen and skills.
Our twice-yearly, invitation-only seminars are the only place where CEOs of the UK’s largest charities come together to share their insights and experiences around the sector’s greatest challenges and opportunities.
How are you examiniming the stories, traits, and cultural barriers that are preventing your organisation from achieving its potential?
The most memorable compliment I have ever received from a client, was this: “The most valuable thing about you, Martyn, is that you know nothing.”
Relationships and customer understanding are, and always will be, the currency of charity business, just as they are for every other kind of business
We all have our default self-talk, and our own ongoing narrative telling us who we are, and who we need to be for others. But it doesn’t have to be fixed. We can all rewrite the story.
Recorded in a live seminar from February 2023, Martyn examines the tensions between planned strategies and agile working, and the more enlightened approach to strategic thinking required to resolve them.
Before you can influence anyone about anything, you first need to understand them. And this is where the early signs of resistance can offer you the single most valuable opportunity of your entire strategy process.
How do you stop “holding” all the stress around uncertainty and unpredictability on your own, and instead, help your people share the load and grow through the experience?
Tuesday 28th February 2023 5pm to 6pm GMT. How can leaders balance the need to be clear and consitent around strategy and plans, while retaining the agility and responsiveness to change course when circumstances shift?
Any strategy is pointless if it can’t be delivered, and the key to delivery is having everyone aligned and engaged, not merely with the tasks they need to perform, but with the objectives you want to achieve.
“Not all those who wander are lost.” In fact, they might just be about to create or discover something transformational…