Engagement/Recruitment, Executive Transitions, Human resources, Leadership, Search and Hire, Succession Planning
If you’ve ever been on a nonprofit Board during an ED transition, one of the first questions you are likely to tackle is whether and how staff members should be involved in the search. At Clover Search Works, we get asked about this a lot, and we do have a point...
Executive Transitions, Search and Hire, Succession Planning
I was 29 when I co-founded Powerful Voices, and 40 when I left my post as Executive Director in 2006 – a formative 11 years for sure. I remember them fondly as the “blood, sweat and tears” years. Prior to transitioning out, I spent about 9 months planning,...
Executive Transitions, Managing Conflict, Search and Hire
Internal Candidate: they are two words that can strike fear in the heart of any nonprofit hiring committee. It’s easy to understand why: small staff teams can feel like a family, and the fear of having to turn down a colleague or even just upset the team dynamic...
Board Development, Executive Transitions, Leadership, Organizational Development, Search and Hire, Succession Planning
This article is about the poor cousin in the executive transition family: onboarding. Often given short shrift, onboarding comes after hours and hours of time (and often thousands and thousands of dollars) have been spent preparing for, searching for, and hiring...
Executive Transitions, Search and Hire
When faced with a vacant leadership position and an interested internal candidate, many organizations seem to feel that doing a full, open search is the “gold standard” for hiring. They put out a job announcement containing the ideal skill set for the position,...
Executive Transitions, Leadership, Organizational Development, Search and Hire, Succession Planning
More often than not, when I hear boards and their executive teams discuss executive transitions, it’s almost always about one of three things: creating a document called a succession plan, hiring a new executive, or really hoping that an executive transition doesn’t...
