Build a personal leadership growth plan
You feel like you've hit a plateau in your development as a leader.
What you'll achieve
We help you identify your leadership strengths and growth areas, and build a structured plan for development.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Use reflection tools, feedback, and structured coaching to assess your current leadership practice, define your priority development goals, and turn them into a realistic action plan.
Key deliverables
- Leadership self-assessment, personalised development plan, coaching sessions, development goals and milestones, recommended learning and practice actions.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Building Leaderful Organizations
Volume 6 of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Executive Transition Monograph Series, written for nonprofit executives and boards. It sets out 3 approaches to succession planning: strategic leader development, emergency succession planning and departure-defined succession planning. A section on the tough issues covers common sticking points, and a resource list closes the guide. Boards and executives use it as a framework to start succession planning and to spread leadership across staff.
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Nonprofit Leadership Development Toolkit
A free toolkit for nonprofits that want to grow leaders from within. It comes with the Bridgespan article How Nonprofit Leadership Development Sustains Organizations and Their Teams. It contains sample competencies from Bridgespan's competency bank, a 70-20-10 development plan template that a manager and staff member fill in together, and guidance on rolling the approach out across an organisation's systems and culture. It is a download from the article page.
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