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The Nonprofit Boardroom: Best Practices for Peak Performance

When joining a nonprofit board, individuals often feel a sense of pride, honor, and appreciation for being asked to serve. The opportunity can be an avenue for improving skillsets, enhancing networks, and most importantly, contributing to the larger community in a meaningful way. But for boards to both support their organization and be the strategic asset that an organization’s leader can rely on, proper board governance is critical.

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Diversifying Leadership [Podcast]

In this episode of Talent Talks, host Rob Adams explores the cutting-edge strategies employed by Broadview Talent Partners to revolutionize talent acquisition in the affordable housing and nonprofit sectors. Tracy McMillan, CEO, and managing partner, along with Christie Angel, managing partner, share compelling examples of how their organization has successfully attracted diverse leaders. Dive into the effective strategies for expanding talent pipelines and gain insights into the tools crucial for navigating today’s competitive talent market.

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Your Pipeline to the C-Suite Starts Here

In the fast-paced world of corporate leadership, the journey to the coveted C-suite begins long before talented individuals reach the executive level. This article is designed to highlight the pivotal role that a well-structured talent pipeline plays in developing strong and diverse leadership. As we navigate the challenging landscape of talent acquisition and retention, it becomes apparent that embracing a philosophy and culture that prioritize pipeline development strategies is not merely a choice but a necessity. 

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Hiring Advice, TrendsKim Daly
It’s Lonely at the Top: How Boards can Empower their CEOs

At the pinnacle of their organizations, CEOs often find themselves in a paradoxical position of both power and isolation. The weight of high-stakes decisions, constant scrutiny, and the burden of steering a company's course can easily create a sense of solitude in this leadership role. To complicate matters, the hierarchical structure of organizations can make it challenging for CEOs to forge genuine connections with their subordinates, as their authority might inadvertently create a barrier to open and candid interactions. Additionally, a CEO's unique vantage point can make it difficult to confide in colleagues or share concerns without the fear of undermining their own authority or causing panic among employees. 

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Must-have Onboarding Elements for New Employees

Whether you’ve secured locally-based talent or hired from afar and are supporting a relocation, remember that starting a new chapter at any level of one’s career is both exciting and stressful. This is also true of those at the executive level! A new door has opened, and investing the proper time and effort to create a comprehensive onboarding experience will make the journey as smooth as possible for your new employee, whether they are mid-career or joining the c-suite. More importantly, this process is crucial to their success and longevity at your organization. Effective relocation and onboarding programs are powerful employee retention tools that deserve maximum attention.

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Eight Steps to Enhance the Candidate Experience

Trying to attract top talent to your organization? Great, so is everyone else! That’s why a competitive salary and attractive benefits package is so important, but it’s just a start. Creating a positive experience for candidates is an often overlooked — and underutilized component — of the executive search process. Just like organizations are interviewing candidates, those same candidates are simultaneously interviewing the organization to see if it’s a good fit for them from both a career and cultural perspective.

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Replacing a Long-Tenured Leader? Do this, not that.

Replacing a long-tenured leader or founder in a non-profit organization can be a challenging task for any Board of Directors. It’s a topic we’ve already touched upon here, but is important enough that we’re digging in deeper. That’s because most favorable outcomes occur when a Board keeps the best interests of the organization’s current and future strategic direction in mind.

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The 5 Most Common Interview Pitfalls

Whether you are mid-career or an experienced C-Suite professional, job interviews can be both stressful and overwhelming. There are a number of factors that can derail the process, causing you to trip at exactly the moment you are trying to hit the ground running. Unfortunately, these unintended mishaps can quickly decrease your chances of making a positive first impression regardless of how well-intentioned — or seemingly qualified — you are. 

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Search Committee Best Practices: Setting up for Success

By their very nature, Search Committees are both varied and imperfect. They span companies, industries and continents, bringing together individuals from across an organization to share the recruitment and hiring process. Even if they understand the main goal — conducting a search for the organization’s next best leader — it’s easy for these committees to stray off-task or get bogged down in minutia, slowing down what could be an otherwise well-proven process. 

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5 Communication Skills Exhibited by Top Leaders

One of our core beliefs about leaders is this: Every leader is not expected to have it all, but they must have a preponderance of it all and they must be able to lead it all. Any gaps or blindspots that he/she/they have must be ably or mightily filled by one of their current or prospective direct reports to mitigate and minimize organizational risk.

There is one corollary to this rule: A CEO absolutely must have superior communication and influencing capabilities.

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