Organizations learn to adopt a new mindset when confronting challenges. Rather than viewing them as intractable and impossible, students become aware of the human capital that already exists within their company and how to leverage local expertise to design low-cost interventions.
Organizations learn diagnostic tools to gather data such as company mapping, departmental surveys, and focus groups.
Organizations learn how to apply a SWOT analysis and develop SMART goals to organize their ideas and formulate a plan of action.
Organizations gain the fundamentals of drafting a project budget and timeline. Using the data collected previously, organizations learn how to argue the need for the selected intervention and how to craft a full project proposal to apply for funding.
Organizations learn the importance of evaluating the project results against the established objectives. As a team, they complete group and self-evaluations to continue growing in their roles as leaders. They learn how to distinguish between qualitative and quantitative data.