0175 - Succession Planning - The Key to Success
Course Description
Succession Planning is “The ongoing process of identifying, assessing and developing talent and systems to ensure leadership continuity for all key positions” American Society of Association Executives .
The Nonprofit world is experiencing a brain drain in Board leadership, Executive Directors and Key staff leaving their organizations. Some reasons are planned retirement, recovering from Covid, embracing work -life balance and other reasons could be emergency situations.
Your instructor, Pat Bohse, served as the Interim Executive Director for a nonprofit located in New Jersey. She is an experienced and knowledgeable place holder who understands the business of running a Nonprofit especially during a transition. This gives the Board of Directors time to find the right person to grow the organization and take it to the next level.
In this interactive workshop we will cover :
-
Defining what is a Succession Plan
-
Reviewing the Getting Ready phase
-
How to conduct the Search
-
The importance of a Communication Plan
-
The importance of Orientation and Onboarding the new person
We will provide handouts to help you develop your plan.
Learner Outcomes
The five learning objectives of Succession Planning are:
- To create a Succession Plan to present to the Board of Directors for approval.
- To provide internal leadership development to the next generation of executives so they can step into senior roles.
- To prepare a succession plan that includes all the necessary information, reports and financials needed to educate and inform a new leader.
- To understand the key steps that need to be taken to develop a comprehensive search to find a new leader.
- To generate an On-boarding process that will integrate and train the new leader.