The nonprofit leadership transition and development guide: proven paths for leaders and organizations

Moving up and moving on is inevitable. It can be affirming and transforming if done right or debilitating for both the leader and the organization if done wrong. In an accessible format, this guidebook offers readers stories, lessons, best practices and practical tools necessary for assuring successful leadership transitions. Furthermore, it helps organizations talk about and plan for leadership transition rather than just avoiding it or letting it happen. In thecourse of this preparation, organizations will assemble and install policies to deal with emergencies, to plan for the future, and to grow their own leaders on staffboth loyal lieutenants ready to stay on in any transition, as well as potential executives-in-waiting. The end result is an organization that is better-run and better-prepared for change of any type. In this guidebook, the author distills more than fifteen years of experience studying nonprofit leadership transitions, working with over 200 organizations, and training many more.This guidebook brings together the authors knowledge, research, and hands-on experience in a single volume. You wont find this comprehensive treatment of to the theory, tools, and steps needed to ensure successful transitions any place else.Tom Adams is president and co-founder of TransitionGuides, a consulting and educational services company based in Silver Spring, Maryland that advises nonprofits on leadership succession, executive search and transition management, and related capacity-building projects. Through TransitionGuides, Tom and his colleagues offer executive transition and succession planning services around the country and are leaders in the development and growth of Executive Transition Management and Leadership Sustainability and Succession Planning as an organizational capacity building strategy. TransitionGuides has assisted over 200 nonprofit organizations in successfully planning for and completing a leadership transition. Clients include local, regional and national nonprofit organizations from a wide variety of mission areas and include a program to serve grantees of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Tom is a national thought leader, speaker and trainer on leadership and leadership transition topics and has published extensively including articles in the Nonprofit Quarterly, the Stanford Journal for Social Innovation and three monographs. TransitionGuides is a consulting and educational services company that enables organizations to capitalize on opportunities that come with transitions. Headquartered in suburban Washington, DC, our team of nationally recognized consultants specializes in leadership transitions, succession planning, strategy development, executive search andmanaging organizational change. We have successfully led hundreds of organizations through leadership and other pivotal changes. Clients include local and national nonprofits, foundations, associations, and select government agencies. TransitionGuides is a pioneer in leading organizations to identify and harness the power of change.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-48122-6
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés