Services
The Collins Center is dedicated to improving the productivity, performance, and accountability of all levels of government, with a particular focus on regionalization and performance management.
Performance Management Services
- Technical services
- Training
- Consulting
- System development
- New England StatNet coordination
- Online professional development course
Regionalization Services
- Collective purchasing
- Capacity sharing, including shared dispatch and shared staffing, such as veterans agents and health officers
- Equipment sharing
- Developing and negotiating inter-municipal agreements
Charter Change and Government Study Committee Services
- Drafting of charter revisions or amendments
- Drafting of Special Acts
- Research
- Public presentations
Municipal Turnaround Assistance
- Budget and management advisory assistance
- Interim management services
Government Services
- City/Town – School collaboration
- Information technology assessments
- Public safety
- Organizational reviews
- Revenue maximization
- Departmental operational analysis
- Public meeting facilitation
- Economic development research
- Labor negotiations and dispute resolution
- Community needs assessment
- Grant application assistance
- Conference for new mayors
- Health care costs analyses
Executive Recruitment and Interim Management Services
- Recruitment
- Interim management
- Transition services
Education and Training Services
- Online, six-module course: Performance Management for Governments and Nonprofits
- Myers Briggs type indicator assessments
- Management, supervisory, and leadership training
- Human resource crisis intervention
- Customized professional development
- Personnel coaching
