Organizations often are in situations where there are changes in leadership, or there are transitions in leadership. Here's some help with dealing more effectively with them, particularly if you are a leader within a transitional period.
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- There are few career moments as exciting -- and these days, as perilous -- as taking over the top job at a company, business unit, or department. But what exactly do you do once you're in charge? This online guide provides 18 tactics -- and case studies -- to help you take the reigns running.
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By Tom Adams
- Executive transition is a powerful milestone for an organization and a predictor of its future effectiveness. Careers of departing and arriving executives and reputations of board leaders are directly affected by the outcomes of transition. Whether or not you’re currently involved with an executive transition, this article will help you manage one of the most difficult and unavoidable aspects of nonprofit life.
What follows are lessons and practical tips for executives and boards based on a five-year field research project of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, a national nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. and experienced in applying these lessons in over 200 executive leadership transitions.
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By n a
- Insightful article about building support--and breaking down resistance to-- change initiatives within an organization. Especially useful for mid-level change agents.
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By John Corwin
- During the past seven years serving a wide variety of nonprofits as interim chief executive (seven in all), I've frequently been asked to describe what it's like for an organization to transition to a new leader. Below you will find a brief summary of some key insights I have developed in the course of my experiences.
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By Corey Rodley Irons
- Sooner or later it happens…even in a nonprofit agency, inevitably leadership leaves. Whether it is a dedicated board member, a founding director or a long-time fiscal director, the time will eventually arrive when people leave and new people must be hired to fill the positions.
Unlike a larger business or for-profit corporation, nonprofit organizations are often unprepared for transition on a leadership level. Having depended on leaders to wear many hats and hold together a agency on a shoestring budget, trying to find qualified and satisfactory replacements may seem like an insurmountable challenge.
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By Marilu Goodyear and Cynthia Golden
- Leadership transitions are a fact of our organizational lives. The average length of tenure for a CIO is between four and five years,1 and we have all seen rapid turnover in IT managers and leaders when the economy is good (as we experienced during the dot-com bubble, for example). The average worker, even in higher education, will probably see numerous leadership transitions during his or her career as people move on.
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