ONLINE: Succession Planning Re-Imagined: Leadership Continuity to Sustain Your Mission

A change in leadership is always a challenge, and COVID-19 has put more pressure than ever on nonprofits. Not having a succession plan creates a huge risk for your organization if there’s a sudden vacancy in a key position. But leadership transitions also provide opportunities for growth if your organization has a culture focused on developing the human capital it needs for the future.

The Nonprofit Association of Washington and Third Sector Company are pleased to offer this two-part webinar series to help your organization build such a culture. “Succession Planning Re-Imagined” will:

• Frame succession planning as essential to your organization’s long-term sustainability
• Outline the essential components of an effective succession plan
• Present five options for beginning your organization’s leadership continuity work
• Provide specific tools and resources to support that work
• Empower you to become the champion for succession planning and leadership continuity in your organization

Learning Outcomes:

Part 1: Setting the Stage – This session will frame succession planning as a key aspect of mission success and sustainability, lay a conceptual groundwork for the culture of leadership continuity, and demonstrate that there are multiple options for beginning the leadership continuity process. Participants also will explore the first of those options in detail. After completing this session, you will be equipped to:

• Understand and discuss the critical need for succession planning in your organization.
• Identify the essential components of an effective succession plan.
• Assess your organization’s leadership continuity landscape.
• Facilitate generative discussions about leadership continuity in your organization.

Part 2: Advancing the Succession Culture – This session will examine four additional options for beginning the succession planning process. After completing this session, you will be able to:

• Assemble an inventory of organizational information critical to smooth operation during a leadership transition.
• Recommend a board leadership pipeline strategy for your organization.
• Facilitate board adoption of three essential leadership succession policies .
• Initiate a generative discussion about HR practices that cultivate talent stewardship.
• Leverage your organization’s strategic plan to advance leadership continuity.

$120 for Not-yet-members. Interested in becoming a member? Find more information here. 

Cost should not be a barrier to participate. Please contact us if you have any requests, concerns, or questions.

Interpretation: Please indicate during registration if you have an interpretation request. Typically, we need at least two weeks in order to schedule an interpreter.

Visual Descriptions: Presenters will include visual descriptions of themselves and the slides to give a person who is low-vision, blind, or calling in without video a sense of space and place.

If you have additional accessibility requests, please let us know when you register.

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