Cathedral offers a broad spectrum of services for our clients in the education sector. Our consultants' expertise allows for solid strategic advise in several key areas effecting educational institutions.
Our education services include:
Administrative Study
Cathedral consultants complete an administrative study of the school including strategy, students, marketing, donors, and risk assessment. Other key areas are organizational functioning, faculty and staff, budgeting, accounting systems, and technology. This important information is putting into context for the administration as it directs revenue, controls expenses, and develops innovation. You become an even more excellent administrator alongside your educational skills.
Administrative Advisement
Each month the Cathedral consultant meets with the educational executive to enhance, impact and assure financial health for traditional and new programs. The regular work meeting includes four phases.
Web Marketing
The web marketing program for schools begins with a campaign assessment of the needs and goals for the promotion. We assist you in the utilization of standard financial statements to inform decisions for the campaign and analyze its results. Technological decisions then have a solid financial and strategic basis for evaluation of the many and increasing number of options. Mixing traditional and online public relations and marketing pushes the message out for consideration and inquiries. Month to month Administrative Services includes monitoring of the metrics and reports from staff and new customers.
Virtual Campus
Our program for adding or enhancing the school with a virtual campus begins with a scoping study to uncover the rationale, strengths and weaknesses. What can it do? What will it cost? With the decision to move forward, the design is completed through needs assessment, situation analysis and team organization of available talent. Curriculum review yields specification of instructional objectives, application of educational principles for learning activities. Based on this initial analysis, media selection is done with the right priorities and at a realistic pace and price. Once ready, a revenue-producing prototype is launched and the equivalent learning begins in earnest. A robust program of evaluation guides the development and the revisions.
Talent Management
The aim is to recognize the primary place of people in an educational institution. An organization chart clarifies the relationships and reporting connections. Job descriptions define each node and can be valued in relation to the net revenue of the school. We utilize the local marketplace to see the labor that is available for the team position and its fair price. To enhance each member for their duties, training is vital for better skills and new capacities. Finally, a succession plan is developed for each position as the school moves forward over time.
Succession Planning
Data is gathered to assess the school environment with the social perception of each staff and faculty member. With this context in place, judgement is made for the aptitude of replacement people. The one leaving is assisted with career support and planning. Job skills for the new position are addressed with formal and informal training with the potential addition of e-learning. This is also an opportunity for implementing any needed organizational change. Next steps are planned and taken incrementally in the context of the financial development of the school.
