Toolbox

Board Work

Compasspoint’s Board Café
www.compasspoint.org/boardcafe

Guidelines for Hiring/Transition to a New Chief Executive
www.managementhelp.org/boards/ed_xtion.htm#anchor598590

Executive Directors

The Executive Director’s Survival Guide: Thriving as a Nonprofit Leader, Mim Carlson and Margaret Donohoe

Leaders Who Make a Difference, Burt Nanus and Stephen Dobbs

Leading Beyond the Walls, Drucker Foundation

Compasspoint’s Annual Executive Director Evaluation

 ‘Developing Your C-Suite,’ Dr. Nancy Atwood and Dr.Terry Bacon,
Lore White Paper
Explores how C-Level executives can use a set of tools and techniques to develop executive talent that can be self-sustaining. www.lorenet.com/email/Developing_Your_C-suite.pdf

Executive Transitions

TransitionGuides: Original and bountiful resource on executive transitions
www.transitionguides.com/

'Goodbye, Hello: A Generation of Executives Reflects on Retirement and the Future of Services for Children and Youth,’ New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services
www.nenetwork.org

'The Nonprofit Sectors Leadership Deficit', The Bridgespan Group
http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001310/leadership/rept

Support Center for Nonprofit Management (NY)
A wealth of resources on transitions, boards, leadership and interim executive directors
www.supportcenteronline.org/bibliography.php

‘Tips for Successful Executive Transitions,’ Bill Coy
www.lapiana.org/newsletters/0103.html#article1

Facilitation

The Institute of Cultural Affairs
www.ica-usa.org

Founders

Founders Syndrome
www.managementhelp.org/misc/founders.htm

Founders and Other Gods by Deborah Linnell (download pdf)

Founder Transitions: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings
by Tom Adams, President

Founder/Long-time Executive Director Transitions by Punch Woods www.transitionguides.com/newsltr/TL_Fall06.htm#feature2

Succession Planning

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services provides succession planning and executive transition management tools and resources.
www.compasspoint.org

CompassPoints’s Emergency Succession Plan template (download pdf)