(Webinar) Succession Planning: Planning for the Inevitable

The Bank of America Nonprofit Impact Series provides key community stakeholders with updates on national programs and critical information that can assist municipalities, public housing authorities, nonprofits and other community stakeholders to address issues such as deteriorating neighborhoods, nonprofit keys to surviving and thriving, etc. 

What:   An interactive training session for nonprofit leaders presenting strategies for talent development and succession planning that prepare nonprofit organizations for leadership transitions, planned and unplanned. Ongoing attention to building the staff bench behind key leadership positions enables an organization to successfully take on unexpected challenges, including the departure of a key leader.  This workshop will help chief executives and board members explore topics such as:

• Strategic Leader Development – techniques for building your talent pool in line with your strategic goals
• Emergency Succession Planning – a risk management practice that prepares an organization for an unexpected absence of a key leader
• Departure-Defined Succession Planning – steps long-term executives should take a year or more in advance of their departures to ensure a smooth transition to their successors.
• Sabbaticals as a succession planning tool.
• A “Succession Readiness Checklist” for knowing how well prepared your organization is for a leadership turnover.
• A self-reflection tool, “Am I still the leader this agency needs?”, for discerning when it’s time to go.

Presented by Tim Wolfred, Senior Project Director, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.  Tim founded and has led for 12 years the Executive Transitions Program at CompassPoint in San Francisco. This session draws on Tim’s 2008 monograph, “Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits.”  Tim’s other publications include his 2009 book, “Managing Executive Transitions: A Guide for Nonprofits”; a monograph, “Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle; and “Stepping Up: A Board’s Challenge in Leadership Transition”, a 2005 article in the Nonprofit Quarterly.  Earlier in his career, Tim served as the executive director of two large nonprofit organizations.  He earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois. 

Who Should Attend:  Nonprofit board members, chief executives and senior staff.
 
When:  Thursday, June 24th (2010) at 2 p.m. (Eastern).  One hour presentation.

Where:  Presentation will be delivered through online webinar and conference call.  Upon registering, you will receive a reply email with the link to the webinar as well as the bridgeline information.  

How to Register:  All participants are required to register through the attached link: http://www.cybergrants.com/boa/webinar.  Upon registering, the organization will receive a confirmation email as well as the link to the webinar and the bridgeline.  If you have previously registered for a Bank of America Nonprofit Impact Series webinar, you can click on the link, login, go to the bottom and click the register for the webinar.  Registration will be accepted up until two hours prior to the call.