Tip #1 Identify the four major areas of succession planning to be attended to: emergency succession planning, planned departure succession planning, creating a strong leader development program and board succession planning. Tip #2 Emergency succession planning and creating a leader development program are operational responsibilities. The responsibility for making these two components a reality rests with senior management. The board … Read More

In more than 35 years in the nonprofit sector, I have yet to meet a supervisor or manager who loves doing employee performance appraisals! One reason for this is that one person (the supervisor or manager) is required to “think-up” all the positive areas for feedback and recall any areas of concern that must be addressed for 10 or more … Read More

It may come as a surprise that more than 75 percent of nonprofits in Canada do not have either emergency or planned departure succession plans for the position of executive director or CEO. This month’s newsletter on emergency succession planning contains material excerpted from my new book “Following the Leader”. Tip #1 Create a board policy on emergency succession planning … Read More