Leadership: Finding and Developing Your Team
The people in your organization shape your impact and your future. It’s not only about hiring the best team or recruiting the right board members, but also providing the education and training they need to be engaged and successful in their roles. Fairmount’s Leadership services help clients answer fundamental questions: How can your teams drive the mission effectively? What type of culture fully embodies your values? How do you find people who can help define your aspirations? How can you develop the board as effective leaders in partnership with staff?
Fairmount is deeply enmeshed in the nonprofit sector. Our services draw on our understanding of Board-staff dynamics, how a social impact mission drives decision-making, culture, and values, and the modern-day qualities necessary for leadership to thrive, and include:
- Search: We pinpoint skills your next leader must possess, searching across diverse sectors and using our trusted networks to find and place the best candidates. We design and facilitate an equitable approach to developing job profiles, conducting interviews, and evaluating talent.
- Succession planning: We strengthen organizations by helping to incorporate future talent needs into planning while strong leadership is still in place – not after they announce a departure.
- Board Composition and Recruitment: As organizations evolve, so do the competencies required for the board. We help clients define the skills, experience, and background their board members need to excel in their roles.
- Board Development: We grow and educate nonprofit boards about the unique structure of the marketplace, their roles and responsibilities, and effectively governance as partners with staff.
- Staff Development: We help teams identify the organizational values and culture needed for success and then provide education and training to build shared commitment to core purpose, cohesion, engagement, and accountability.
Without the right team, achieving strategic goals is a challenge. We understand that having a diversity of team skills, experiences, and backgrounds will help clients challenge assumptions, have robust conversations, and reach the best decisions towards your goals.
Our high-energy processes are tailored to identify, recruit, and advance strong leadership teams for nonprofits of all sizes, ensure effective board relationships, and develop executive staff and boards that understand their distinct roles to operate effectively and promote mutual accountability.
Contact us today to learn how Fairmount Ventures can help you find and develop high-functioning board and staff teams.