Why TOG?

Are you a motivated, results-oriented student looking to make a tangible difference in your community? The Oklahoma Group provides the real-world experience and training that will help you gain the skills to launch your future career.

Consultant Experience Overview

Each semester, The Oklahoma Group puts together three teams of four students to serve as consultants to a selected nonprofit organization. Our consultants spend 10-15 hours per week working with their teams to develop recommendations to improve their respective nonprofit. Each team member is assigned a workstream, which is TOG-speak for a specific aspect of the research project. Each team also has a student team leader. Team leaders are facilitators and are responsible for organizing, managing, and working with team members, Executive Committee, mentors, and nonprofits.

Though each project is different, the general form of most projects includes:

An initial assessment of the nonprofit
Establishing benchamarks from comparable nonprofits by conducting interviews and researching best practices
Developing and tailoring recommendations to provide to the client in both a final presentation and deliverable document

Throughout the semester, our consultants are trained to make the best recommendations possible to their respective nonprofits through a two-day boot camp, weekly meetings, and three formal progress reviews.

Bootcamp

Bootcamp is a two-day training session before the semester where consultants meet their teams, non-profits, and participate in team building activities. During bootcamp, our consultants are introduced to:

The Oklahoma Group
The nonprofit sector of central Oklahoma
The world of consulting
Their respective teams and nonprofit organization

Weekly Meetings

During our weekly meetings, our consultants come together to learn skills in presentation, nonprofit analysis, and the steps of the TOG process. During Big TOG time, all teams are in the same room, allowing for group bonding activities. After Big TOG, teams break off to review their weekly progress, collabarte with each other, and discuss next steps. Every consultant has one workstream, a dedicated area of the nonprofit they work on all semester.

Progress Reviews

Over the course of the semesterly consulting process, each participates in three progress reviews, covering each phase of the TOG process. These professional presentations are well reheresed and delivered in a formal manner in front of outside panelists, who are members of the nonprofit world and provide input and advice on teams current progress.

Final Deliverable

At the end of the semester, our teams deliver our clients a final deliverable, a document consisting of in-depth research and recommendations covering each consultants workstream. This document serves as a guiding report on implementing the teams recomendations over the course of one to two years, and is a summary of the whole semester of work.

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