Capacity Development Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Capacity Development Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Capacity Development related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Capacity Development specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Capacity Development Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Capacity Development improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. How will the diversity strategic plan tell the story of the process to ensure stakeholders can see the connections between the engagement and the final plan?
   
   

2. What is the role of intellectual capital as the core of value creation in corporate life performance at different stages of the life cycle?
   
   

3. How will leadership publicly recognize contributions of diversity strategic planning team members and stakeholders in developing the plan?
   
   

4. Does the budget provide sufficient expenditures in all areas that are necessary for the effective implementation of the annual plan?
   
   

5. Are the quality and condition of goods received verified at time of receipt by personnel independent of the purchasing function?
   
   

6. Does your organization team plan for continuous improvement of staff skills through professional development and/or coaching?
   
   

7. What training and experience do you have in developing and implementing services and programs that incorporate diversity?
   
   

8. How have organization performance metrics changed as a result of financial management system implementations?
   
   

9. What is the capability of the existing management team to support your vision for the future of the business?
   
   

10. Is there a value analysis program providing for substitutions of comparable quality components at lower cost?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Capacity Development book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Capacity Development self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Capacity Development Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Capacity Development areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Capacity Development Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Capacity Development projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Capacity Development Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Capacity Development project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Lessons Learned: Was the user/client satisfied with the end product?
   
   

2. Procurement Audit: Is authorization required to make changes to the purchase order file?
   
   

3. WBS Dictionary: Is undistributed budget limited to contract effort which cannot yet be planned to CWBS elements at or below the level specified for reporting to the Government?
   
   

4. Risk Management Plan: Do benefits and chances of success outweigh potential damage if success is not attained?
   
   

5. Lessons Learned: How well were your expectations met regarding the extent of your involvement in the Capacity Development project (effort, time commitments, etc.)?
   
   

6. Project Scope Statement: Will the qa related information be reported regularly as part of the status reporting mechanisms?
   
   

7. WBS Dictionary: Do work packages reflect the actual way in which the work will be done and are they meaningful products or management-oriented subdivisions of a higher level element of work?
   
   

8. Scope Management Plan: Does a documented Capacity Development project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
   
   

9. Schedule Management Plan: Are the people assigned to the Capacity Development project sufficiently qualified?
   
   

10. Executing Process Group: What are the key components of the Capacity Development project communications plan?


 
Step-by-step and complete Capacity Development Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Capacity Development project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Capacity Development project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Capacity Development project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Capacity Development project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Capacity Development project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Capacity Development project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Capacity Development project with this in-depth Capacity Development Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Capacity Development projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Capacity Development and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Capacity Development investments work better.

This Capacity Development All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.