Searching for a Key Employee: The 7 No-No's of HiringThe search for a key employee is the single most critical decision your organization can make. And if you are like most NonProfit organizations, your board and/or Executive Director will probably decide to take on this task themselves.
Most people figure that because they've been in business (or been an executive in a NonProfit) that they know how to hire. But if you ask, they'll tell you war stories - bad hires, bad interviews, horrible candidates.
With the success of your organization hinging on this decision, there are steps you can take (and, more importantly, steps to avoid) to increase the chances of getting the very best candidate for the job.
The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide: Promoting the power fo shared knowledgeThe Nonprofit Good Practice Guide from the Johnson Center offers a resource library for a variety of topics in nonprofit management and capacity building, including topics on diversity, building partnerships, board development, ethics and advocacy, among many other important issues.
Trading Power: What the next generation has to offer in exchange for what seasoned leaders provideThe Council on Foundations is proud to release this publication at its 2010 Family Philanthropy Conference. As the Council has worked both to broaden services and enhance options for Next Gen leaders, basic questions about increasing Next Gen representation in leadership positions across philanthropy surfaced again and again: Why? How? Who? When? What would it look like? Trading Power, the outgrowth of interviews with more than 15 seasoned and
next generation philanthropic executives and trustees, offers
candid insights worthy of action.
Strategic Recruiting: Using Creative Communication Principles to Find the People You NeedStrategic Recruiting: Using Creative Communication Principles to Find the People You Need is based on the half-day workshop delivered to participants at the Community Literacy of Ontario Annual General Meeting and Conference in October 2000.
The workshop – and this resource – approach the topic of recruiting from a cyclical communications model. Through the progressive series of exercises, we hope that you will be able to clearly identify who it is you are trying to recruit and then use that information to structure your recruitment messages accordingly.
Turn Your Organization into a Volunteer MagnetForty leaders in the field of volunteer management, from Australia, Britain, Canada, Italy, New Zealand and the USA, share what they have learned about making your organisation attractive to volunteers. Packed full of top tips and compelling case studies on topics ranging from recruitment and retention, to diversity and creative programme management, these authors – many of whom are published here for the first time – write from the grassroots of volunteer management. Now in its second edition, this expanded collection of ideas is an indispensable resource written by managers of volunteers for their peers.
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