So, you are finding yourself either in an unhappy environment, have accepted a ‘buy out’, or maybe like so many, find yourself collecting unemployment? Colleagues and friends often ask me about how to improve and enhance a job search. In the past, you may have simply applied to positions in your field and gotten multiple offers. This time is different. Erase all the job-seeking lessons you learned from your past. Today is new and we are now in uncharted waters. So, what can you do to amp up your game? Are you ready to jump-start your job search?
Seek and Find — How to Leverage the Experts
The best way to work with a search consultant is to give that person ample information about your organization’s culture and about the expectations associated with the role at hand. The more accurate the information, the better the search consultant can serve your needs.
Preparing For Executive Transition
Serving as the leader in a nonprofit is a rewarding role, and many nonprofit executives choose to remain in their role for years. However, whether through planned retirement or through unexpected changes in the organization, every executive role will eventually need...
American Millennials Choose Nonprofits
For young people in the United States, finding a career path after college can be exciting, daunting, and frightening. For one, it bears with it the question of whether all the time and money spent on education was worthwhile. Additionally, many young people feel that...
Leadership Transition: Tips From The Children’s Partnership
In 1993 Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper co-founded The Children’s Partnership nonprofit organization, and they served as co-presidents until 2015, when they turned the leadership over to Mayra E. Alvarez (Koenig). The process of transitioning between leaders in a...
Best practices for Checking References
In Karen Alphonse’s four-part article series, she addresses the various aspects of hiring and recruiting in the higher levels of the nonprofit sector. In her third part of the series, “References: How to Get Great Input, Part Three” she addresses the best way to...
Coping With Leadership Turnover
One pertinent challenge facing nonprofit organizations today is leadership turnover, as described in the article The Nonprofit Leadership Development Strategy, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review. A significant number of nonprofit executives and managers have...
What To Expect When Your Board Members Are Expecting Growth
Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly once said that an army marches on its stomach, meaning that an army can only function if it has adequate supplies and food. This maxim applies to the modern world of nonprofit management as well, as a nonprofit ‘marches’ on its financial...