Road Maps
As Greenlights begins the journey through an executive transition, we're gathering road maps.
And there are many road maps to learn from. Compasspoint - a Bay Area nonprofit management center has been guiding nonprofit executive transitions for a while. Their resources are the model for Greenlights resources - a strong interim director pool, on-line examples of succession plans, and Tim Wolfred's workshops and writings about board roles in executive transitions.
On the East Coast, Transition Guides is a for-profit firm that has been conducting searches, sharing research and leading workshops to help groups like Greenlights get good at providing assistance in leadership transitions.
Nonprofit Quarterly has been publishing great articles about the issue. Executive search firms locally and around the US are finding the new market of nonprofit transitions to be calling them. And there are new research findings about the health of the nonprofit employment world that are rippling throughout both the academic and practitioner communities. Research that says 5 out of 7 current nonprofit executives will leave their posts in the next 3-5 years. Research that says there's a potential leadership vacuum ahead. Research that says Gen X and Gen Y nonprofit rock stars are shying away from executive work -seeing the frustrations involved in fundraising and multitasking.
And we are collecting "travelogues" from local nonprofits who have gone through a change in leadership with tales to tell.
Greenlights will create a lessons learned webpage for our community. We're also doing a good bit of preparation to help Austin weather these changes ahead. Already we have tips, tools, and articles online that can help fellow travelers
Our intention is to use all these road maps as we chart our journey through the transition ahead.
The challenges we face in the early stage of the journey?
-- creating the transition team
-- creating a timeline
-- setting groundrules
-- getting input
Gonna be fun!
And there are many road maps to learn from. Compasspoint - a Bay Area nonprofit management center has been guiding nonprofit executive transitions for a while. Their resources are the model for Greenlights resources - a strong interim director pool, on-line examples of succession plans, and Tim Wolfred's workshops and writings about board roles in executive transitions.
On the East Coast, Transition Guides is a for-profit firm that has been conducting searches, sharing research and leading workshops to help groups like Greenlights get good at providing assistance in leadership transitions.
Nonprofit Quarterly has been publishing great articles about the issue. Executive search firms locally and around the US are finding the new market of nonprofit transitions to be calling them. And there are new research findings about the health of the nonprofit employment world that are rippling throughout both the academic and practitioner communities. Research that says 5 out of 7 current nonprofit executives will leave their posts in the next 3-5 years. Research that says there's a potential leadership vacuum ahead. Research that says Gen X and Gen Y nonprofit rock stars are shying away from executive work -seeing the frustrations involved in fundraising and multitasking.
And we are collecting "travelogues" from local nonprofits who have gone through a change in leadership with tales to tell.
Greenlights will create a lessons learned webpage for our community. We're also doing a good bit of preparation to help Austin weather these changes ahead. Already we have tips, tools, and articles online that can help fellow travelers
Our intention is to use all these road maps as we chart our journey through the transition ahead.
The challenges we face in the early stage of the journey?
-- creating the transition team
-- creating a timeline
-- setting groundrules
-- getting input
Gonna be fun!
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