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Staff Involvement in an Executive Director Search

Staff Involvement in an Executive Director Search

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...
Navigating Founder Transitions

Navigating Founder Transitions

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 Onboarding

Executive Onboarding

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...
Beyond a Succession Plan

Beyond a Succession Plan

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...

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