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CEO Performance Management for Nonprofit Boards and Executives
7 sessions in MP3 audio format, 36 minutes 40 secs (80.7MB)

Session 1: Why Most Attempts at CEO Performance Management Do Not Work. How to lose your CEO. What is the Boards role in Performance Management?  Your Vision Statement as a Performance Management strategic filter. Boards working with CEO's. 6m31s

Session 2: Performance Managing the 2 Key Assets of Your Organisation. A process for Performance Management of the CEO and Board. Who should manage the Performance Management? The role of the Governance Sub-committee. The timing of performance Management of the CEO. 6m3s

Session 3: The Role of Board Sub-committees. The Finance/Audit/Risk Sub-committee. The Governance vs Executive Sub-committee. Ensuring the Governance Sub-committee has the requisite skills. 3m3s

Session 4: What are Key Performance Indicators in Performance Management of the CEO. 3 different types of KPIs. Examples of the 3 different types of KPIs. The impact of sharing KPIs. 8m46s

Session 5: How the Board can Contribute to CEO Development. The Board's role in CEO Performance management. Trust vs Blind Faith in the CEO. How can the Board ensure that they can trust the CEO. 4m16s

Session 6: The Impact of Strategic Planning on Performance Management. The role of the Board in strategic planning. The Planning Team. The role of stakeholders in strategic planning. Reviewing your strategic plan. 3m32s

Session 7: Succession Planning for the CEO. Timing of your CEO succession plan. What goes into your succession plan? The issue of skills transfer. The succession planning process. Who should do the succession plan? 2m33s

CEO Performance Management for Nonprofit Boards and Executives ***PLUS Bonus materials on succession planning, the role of the CEO in consciously creating the culture the organization requires, and charters for relevant Board committees.

7 sessions in MP3 audio format, 36 minutes 40 secs (80.7MB) (See above for details)

PLUS Bonus Materials!!!

Bonus 1: Succession Planning for the CEO and Key Staff

A resource to assist in dentifying the required skills and characteristics that the organization will need into the future, sourcing the most appropriate people, and ensuring that the whole process is strategically and seamlessly managed. Includes a key personnel transition strategy and a sample critical path for CEO succession planning.

Bonus 2: The Role of the Nonprofit CEO in creating Culture

Most organizational cultures are formed unconsciously by the CEO and leadership team and habitually sustained by employees and stakeholders. The CEO is the single greatest potential influence on the organizational culture. This resource includes the five conscious CEO practices for developing culture: Describe the Culture you desire; Lead with Questions; Consciously Model the Way: mindset, behaviour, symbols and processes; Promote a Common Vision; and Foster collaboration and build spirited teams. Practical tools are presented with examples provided.

Bonus 3: Sample Charters for the three true Board committees

There are three true Board committees that facilitate the accountability and decision making of the Board, including performance management. The Finance/Audit/Risk subcommittee looks after the P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, investment and possibly the risk management processes. The Governance subcommittee looks after the skills analysis, recruitment process, induction, and ongoing performance management of both the CEO and the Board itself. The Internal Audit subcommittee ensures that key processes and policies are actually followed.

Session 1: What do we think risk is? A different way of looking at risk. Risk as strategic advantage and potential opportunity. 4m52s

Session 2: The Board's role in Risk Management Why should the Board be interested in risk? How to get your Board interested in risk. What information should the Board be receiving. Getting the staff involved. 5m25s

Session 3: The Components of Risk Management #1 How to identify risk. Who should identify risk? Issues with risk software. 4m40s

Session 4: The Components of Risk Management #2 Ranking processes that actually work. Strategic advantage from understanding potential to occur, impact if it does, and existing controls. Action planning for project management of risk controls. Risk management as a Board policy. 4m25s

Session 5: Risk Management as a Board priority Risk Management policy. Agreeing on key risks. Reporting against agreed risks. 2m34s

Session 6: Audit of Risk processes Who to involve in the audit. Creative destruction of risk processes. 5m34s

Session 7: Practical Ideas for Identifying Risk 5 practical ideas for identification of risk. 2m

Session 8: Processes for Ranking and Treating Risk Developing definitions on risk ranking. Ranking the potential for the risk to occur. Ranking the impact if the risk does occur. Ranking the quality of the existing risk controls. Action planning the treatment of risk. 5m15s

Session 9: Turning Risk to Strategic Advantage Looking for the strategic opportunity. Using an ethical filter. 4m07s

Session 10: Getting your Board to Understand Risk Modelling your behaviour regarding risk. The impact of Board reports. 1m58s

Session 11: Risk and Performance Management Developing Key Performance Indicators. The three types of KPIs. 3m18s

Risk Management as Strategic Advantage ***PLUS Bonus materials including sample risk management policies, sample ranking definitions, sample risk treatment plan format, stakeholder risk identification checklist, and article "Why is Risk Really Strategic Advantage?" 

11 sessions in MP3 audio format, 42 minutes  (102.8 MB) (See above for details)

Bonus 1: Two sample Risk Management policies (.pdf)

Bonus 2: Sample Risk Ranking definitions and format (.pdf)

Bonus 3: Sample Risk Treatment plan format using excel spreadsheet (.pdf)

Bonus 4: Stakeholder Risk Identification checklist to assist in identifying who should be identifying risk (.pdf)

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This book is for all chief executives of nonprofit organizations, regardless of size or sector. Whether the chief executive runs a charity, membership association, NGO, educational institute, church or club, the practices, tools and information in this book will assist them to cultivate conscious leadership wisdom that they can apply to their own situation.

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