CadencePace Partners Services
Experienced Coaching, Facilitation, & Consulting
Leadership Coaching and Organizational Strengthening
The challenges facing today’s nonprofit and philanthropic Board and staff leaders are ever-changing and more complex than ever, and CadencePace Partners is well positioned to provide organizational leadership coaching and consulting based on real world experience. Seasoned CEOs, as well as first time Executive Directors can benefit from coaching that helps build effective Boards, strong teams, and supports leaders in setting priorities, making difficult decisions, and planning.
CadencePace coaching is unique, focusing on the organization’s effectiveness as well as the CEO’s interests, growth, and success. Using a positive, strengths-based approach CadencePace coaches help leaders put their strengths to work and gain clarity about how to create and sustain exceptional team performance. Using this approach leaders can build and nurture a strengths-based culture that helps the organization succeed for years to come.
Additional “strengths-based” leadership support can be in the form of training, meeting facilitation, or retreats.
Board Effectiveness and Impact
Dynamic Boards and a strong CEO/Board relationship can fuel an organization’s success and growth. Governance is a key factor in nonprofit and philanthropic accountability, transparency, mission focus, and success. CadencePace Partners can provide Board Assessment, coaching, and training to Board Chairs and CEOs to ensure that proven practices are available to fuel excellence.
Sometimes the problem is lack-luster Board meetings and poor attendance. CadencePace Partners can help make meetings focused, action-oriented, and engaging.
As nonprofits grow, they may find that their current Board is not up to new challenges, and they must ‘raise the bar’ in multiple ways. CadencePace Partners can help staff and Board identify the skills needed and create a plan for Board growth.
The partnership between the CEO and the Board Chair plays a key role in establishing strong organizational leadership and is often a source of stress and frustration for CEOs. CadencePace Partners can help identify the stress points and make suggestions to improve this key partnership.
Succession Planning and Executive Search & Transition Management
Every nonprofit and foundation should have an emergency and regular succession plan for the CEO, yet less than half do. This responsibility rests with the Board, which needs input from staff leadership to create a well thought out succession plan in the event of a crisis, retirement, resignation, or termination. CadencePace Partners can work with the CEO and Board to create an emergency and a regular succession plan to ensure that operations continue as smoothly as possible when transition happens.
With the retirement of many ‘baby boomer’ CEOs, the Boards of nonprofit organizations are thrust into a new role that they may have no experience with. Rather than delegate the entire process to an outside search firm, CadencePace Partners can work with a Board that prefers to be more ‘hands on’.
The scope of assistance can include helping create a Search Committee, facilitating meetings, identifying the skills, characteristics, and personality needed for the future, drafting a job posting, screening candidates, preparing the Committee to conduct interviews, and coaching towards a final decision. But the most important thing is that CadencePace Partners will stay engaged to help the Board and the new CEO get off on the right foot by clarifying expectations, identifying priorities, choosing an evaluation strategy, and supporting the new CEO.
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