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Managing Executive Transitions: A Guide for Nonprofits

by Tim Wolfred
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The Essential Guide for Managing Leadership Turnovers
A leadership transition can be a time of high vulnerability for a nonprofit organization. On the other hand, an executive turnover offers unique opportunities for renewal and fresh thinking. Managing Executive Transitions shows how this state of transition can give board and staff members a chance to put things back together in new and creative ways—to discard some old pieces and to bring in fresh elements. Nonprofit boards and executive directors will find practical advice on how to manage leadership turnovers in ways that can heighten mission impact while avoiding potential downsides. Author Tim Wolfred recommends a transformational process of three phases: Prepare, Pivot, and Thrive. In the Prepare phase board members, staff, volunteers, and funders engage in an efficient process for updating the agency's strategic directions and crafting a profile of the skills needed in the next executive. In the Pivot phase a search ensues, conducted by a board reinvigorated and excited about the agency's future impact. In the Thrive phase the board engages the newly hired executive as a leadership partner and gives him or her clear performance priorities derived from the strategic directions. Engaging case studies and hands-on tools such as planning agendas, timelines, sample letters, and communication tips will smooth the transition to new executive leadership.

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Book details

Author
Tim Wolfred
Imprint
Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback, Hardcover
Subjects
Business & Economics › Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
Business & Economics › Structural Adjustment
Business & Economics › Management
Topics
nonprofit leadership · leadership succession · board governance · organizational renewal · nonprofit management
ISBN-13
9780940069572 (Paperback)9781684422036 (Hardcover)

About the author

TIM WOLFRED, Psy.D., is a nonprofit leadership consultant and author who has worked in the sector since 1971. He is the author of Managing Executive Transitions: A Guide for Nonprofits, and co-authored Daring to Lead 2006, Daring to Lead 2001, and monographs including Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits and Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle.

Wolfred holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois. He served as executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation from 1985 to 1989, completed interim executive director roles at 16 Bay Area nonprofits, and in 1998 inaugurated CompassPoint Nonprofit Services' Executive Transitions program, which he led for more than a decade.

Tim lives in San Francisco.

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