Expand & Grow Co-ops
Expand & Grow Co-ops ⇀
Are you ready?
- Orientation
- Alignment
- Structure & capacity
Is it feasible?
- Market Study
- Financial Feasibility
- Internal Readiness
- Design Feasibility
What's the plan?
- Business Planning
- Timeline Development
- Bylaws & Membership
- Owner Capitalization
- External Capitalization
- Ongoing Support
- Store Design
Let's go
- Operations
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Building a New Equity Strategy
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Develop Your Talent
Develop Your Talent ⇀
Coaching and Mentoring
- GM Success Coaching Program
- Board/GM relations
- Mentoring
- Staff problems
Build HR Systems
- Employee handbooks
- HR Audits
- Recruiting and selecting
- Compensation Analysis
- Workplace investigations
Survey employees
- Staff satisfaction survey
- Policy compliance survey
Workplace Culture
- Open Book
- Organizational capacity
- Co-op Culture
- Crucial Conversations
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Evolving a Work Culture through Participation and Training
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Improve Operations
Improve Operations ⇀
Product Management
- Sales growth
- Pricing and margins
- Benchmarks
- Training
Staff Development
- Financial training
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Hiring and Training
- Labor management
- Margin management
- Assessments
Fresh Foods
- Deli and Prepared Foods
- Produce
Front End
- Front End Services
- Cooperative Service Training
Safety and Security
- Loss prevention
- Emergency Preparedness
Marketing and Branding
- Marketing and Branding
- Brand Audits
Interim General Management
- Interim General Management
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Meat Department Sparks Reputation for Service and Quality
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Participation
Participation ⇀
Power of Participation
- POP Overview
- Owner Engagement
- Staff Training, Development and HR
- Cooperative Service Training
- Expansions, Growth and Change
- Leadership and Communication Support
- Marketing, Communication and Merchandising
- Co-op Education and Culture
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Eastside Food Co-op Builds Enthusiasm for Co-op Development
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Cooperative Governance
Cooperative Governance ⇀
Our Approach
- Our Approach
- 4 Pillars Cooperative Governance
Our Team
- Our Team
CBLD Services
- Ongoing Hours + Retreat
- In-person events
- Enrollment
- Startups
Events
- CBL 101
- Applied Governance Topics
- Co-op Cafe
- Event Logistics
Resources
- CDS CC Library
Add-ons and Extras
- Individualized Events
- Special Deals
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Outpost's "High Five"
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Start a Co-op
Start a Co-op ⇀
4 Cornerstones in 3 Stages
- 4 Cornerstones in 3 Stages
Organizing Stage
- Orientation
- Member Outreach
- Planning
Feasibility/Planning Stage
- Market study
- Financial feasibility
- Internal readiness
- Design feasibility
What’s the plan?
- Business planning
- Timeline development
- Bylaws and membership
- Capitalization
- Store design
- Governance
- Hiring
Implementation Stage
- Operations
FEATURED CASE STUDY

Benefits of 4 in 3 Model to Launch Startup
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Develop Your Talent

Compensation Analysis

Overview

Compensation Analysis

Providing fair, competitive and financially feasible compensation for co-op managers and staff is essential for recruitment, retention and being a workplace of choice.

Compensation is also a hard topic for anyone on your staff to be completely objective in analyzing your current compensation approach. Our consultants can assist you with that analysis and make recommendations for achieving your goals.

Our compensation analysis studies include:

Identifying the positions to analyze
Research base salaries using local pay data, national salary websites, and data from peer co-ops
Adjust the latter two sources for regional cost of living differences
Analyze the effect of experience on compensation
Review total compensation to ensure benefits are effective
Consider contingent/bonus compensation
Make recommendations for adjustments as needed

Associated Consultants

Carolee Colter

Employee Surveys, Human Resources Systems, Tools and Training

Helena O'Connor, SPHR

Employee Surveys, Human Resources Systems, Tools and Training

Sarah Dahl

Compensation Analysis, Employee Surveys, Human Resources Systems, Tools and Training

“ Sarah was a great resource -- offering timely, thoughtful, and practical solutions for improving our compensation package. ”

Lucy Georgoff, finance manager, Springfield Co-op

“ Sarah advice on our wage scale was invaluable. I would highly recommend Sarah to anyone who is reviewing or overhauling their wage scale. ”

Tim Bartlett, general manager, Lexington Co-op

“ Sarah’s grasp of the complexity of compensation has been an indispensable asset and her grace as our management team digested these concepts cannot be overstated. ”

Zac Hamlin, human resources manager, Community Mercantile Co-op

Associated Case Studies

Upcoming Events

CBL101

5/5/18 - Kalamazoo, Michigan

7/14/18 - Buffalo, New York

9/22/18 - Minneapolis, Minnesota

9/29/18 - Sacramento, California

Cooperative Cafe

10/6/18 - Portland, Oregon

10/13/18 - Keene, New Hampshire

10/20/18 - Philadelphia, Penn.

10/27/18 - Madison, Wisconsin

Check out our open-access library!

It is a great resource for understanding all of the particulars of good governance - from agenda planning to policy templates, you can find it all in our Library.

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Overview

Coaching and Mentoring

Build HR Systems

Survey employees

Workplace Culture

Compensation Analysis

Providing fair, competitive and financially feasible compensation for co-op managers and staff is essential for recruitment, retention and being a workplace of choice.

Associated Consultants

“ Sarah was a great resource -- offering timely, thoughtful, and practical solutions for improving our compensation package. ”

“ Sarah advice on our wage scale was invaluable. I would highly recommend Sarah to anyone who is reviewing or overhauling their wage scale. ”

“ Sarah’s grasp of the complexity of compensation has been an indispensable asset and her grace as our management team digested these concepts cannot be overstated. ”

Associated Case Studies

Upcoming Events

CBL101

Cooperative Cafe

Check out our open-access library!