Capacity Building is an essential growth activity undertaken by individuals, businesses and not-for-profit organizations. The Spotts Group provides a range of capacity building services its clients.
Individuals primarily engage in capacity building through professional development, continuing and formal education. The intent and purpose of capacity building is to maximize a person’s productivity while optimizing performance and the use of resources.
What is productivity? Any terminal result may be productivity, such as increased cash flow, expanded client base, increased profit margins, establishing new markets, reduced shrinkage, expanded staff, increased programmatic offering.
Define capacity building. Any strategic activity resulting in an individual, business or organization’s increased productivity and ability to replicate, sustain and expand said productivity into the foreseeable future.
The definition begs the question, What is productivity? For obvious reasons it is a challenge to define productivity too narrowly. Each individual, organization or business differs substantially in resources, readiness, life cycle and access to tools and resources essential to build capacity.