Executive Transitions MonographsThe Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund have developed a series of monographs on executive transitions management. The series is a joint effort of TransitionGuides and CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.
Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for NonprofitsThe development of leadership skills throughout an organization is a key strategy for succession planning and strengthening capacity. This publication presents emergency succession planning tools (an important “risk management” practice). It offers executive directors concrete guidance for thinking about when and how to leave an organization. It also includes suggestions for boards in being proactive in assuring the sustainability of the organizations for which they are responsible.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-managementCapturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational CapacityThis report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes the model of executive management transition that has been used in the last decade. It also details opportunities for funders to further develop and implement strategies to better cope with executive management transitions.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-managementFounder Transitions: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings: A Guide for Executive Directors and BoardsThis guide examines the unique challenges presented by transitions involving founders or long-term executives. It provides clear advice for executives and their boards in confronting the complex issues these transitions present.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-managementInterim Executive Directors: The Power in the MiddleThis paper explores the benefits and basics of using an interim executive director during a leadership transition. It also highlights some considerations that organizations should take into account when deciding whether or not to use an interim executive director.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-managementNext Shift: Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership CrisisThis is the second monograph in a series on generational shifts in the non-profit sector. In this monograph, the authors counter a variety of proposed interventions from infrastructure organizations and present an alternate to the current crisis framework. The authors posit that by applying a crisis framework to the transitional trends in the non-profit sector, leadership ignores the rich opportunities that lay ahead. The authors make suggestions as to how the non-profit sector can embrace this time of change and have positive outcomes.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-managementStepping Up, Staying Engaged: Succession Planning and Executive Transition Management for Nonprofit Boards of DirectorsThis publication focuses particularly on board leaders. It provides a set of practical perspectives, hands-on tools, brief case studies, and useful resources to help board chairs, officers, and members take a proactive approach to preparing their organizations for a transition.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-managementUp Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit OrganizationsResearch indicates that leadership transitions from the Baby Boom generation to Generations X and Y will become more common within the nonprofit sector. This report delivers a series of recommendations on how a variety of stakeholders can improve the hand-off from this generation of leaders to the next.
http://www.transitionguides.com/index.php/publications/monographs-on-executive-transition-management TransitionGuidesTransitionguides is a consulting and educational services company. Their website contains tools and ideas to strengthen organizations during leadership change. Topics Include:
- Why Focus on Executive Transitions--What's at Stake?
- Executive Transition vs. Executive Search, What's the Difference?
- What are the Benefits?
- Transition Success Factors
- Three Phases of Executive Transitions
- Five Developmental Tasks for the Interim Period
- Transition Tips for Departing Executives
- Transition Tips for Boards & Search Committees
- Transition Tips for Arriving Executives
http://www.transitionguides.com/ More ArticlesPlanning Successful Successions From the Chronical of Philanthropy, Planning Successful Successions discusses how planning ahead for a leader's departure can prevent problems.
http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v18/i06/06000601.htm
Change Ahead, Nonprofit Executive Leadership and Transitions This summary of a survey of 2,200 executive directors of nonprofit organizations from across the country, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation highlights the implications that the growing number of leadership transitions may have for the nonprofit sector over the coming decades.
www.aecf.org/upload/PublicationFiles/change%20summary.pdf Stepping Up: A Board’s Challenge in Leadership Transitionwhen the executive director steps down, the board has to step up and take charge in ways that may be new to it.This article explores the challenges faced by boards during this transtion.
https://www.compasspoint.org/assets/225_steppingupaboardschalleng.pdf
Managing Executive Transitions HandbookManaging Executive Transitions is a handbook for nonprofit organizations that face or are going through an executive transition. It was developed by community leaders and staff working with the NeighborWorks® network of community-development nonprofits that were concerned about the negative effect a high turnover of executive directors was having on performance.
http://www.nw.org/network/pubs/studies/documents/handbook.pdf 
