The answer is simple but profound: you can then make your activity intentional to achieving them. Without starting with clarity on success, we let traditional processes and structures define what we do. We may start and finish on time. We are, however, very unlikely to achieve at the highest possible level. To end with a result you have to start with one. Hal Williams, the Creator of Results 1st, has been a Results guide for decades leading nonprofits, governments, and private industry clients to enhance impact by designing plans and actions based on the desired results. Hal’s work ensures that individuals and organizations are inspired and knowledgeable enough to be moved into action, creating verifiable results that better the human condition based on each location and initiative’s unique situation. Hal’s clients for increasing and verifying results include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, American Express, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the Duke Endowment, and the Annie E. Casey Humana, Prudential, Starwood Hotels, and Verizon Foundations. His government clients include mayors and city managers in such cities as Albany, New York, Grand Rapids Michigan, and Seattle, Washington. He has worked with governors of Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia. Much of Hal’s career focused on creating and leading The Rensselaerville Institute (TRI). The Institute is an internationally respected educational center known as “The Think Tank with Muddy Boots.” Its nationwide community self-help projects have been featured on such programs as CBS and NBC nightly news and Sunday Morning. Newspaper features include the New York Times, Parade Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He is lead author of Outcome Funding: a New Approach to Targeted Grantmaking. Now in its 4th edition, the book is widely used in the US and the UK as a framework for allocating and spending money to improve human lives and conditions. Hal has served as lead consultant to a U.S. Presidential Commission. Robyn Faucy, Results 1st Chief Executive Officer, guides non-profit and for-profit organizations to achieve aggressive and transformative results. Her specialties are revenue development, culture-shifting, marketing and defining, tracking, and verifying results. She doubled the annual income of two organizations. For more information on how to achieve the greatest gains and results for your clients, employees and constituents, connect with us at Results1st.org or message us here.
