Your Leaving Well guide to navigating workplace transitions 🧡 I normalize workplace transitions one organization + person at a time. Leaving Well is the art + practice of leaving in the workplace, with intention + joy.
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Leaving Well in the Workplace
Your Leaving Well guide to navigating workplace transitions 🧡 I normalize workplace transitions one organization + person at a time. Leaving Well is the art + practice of leaving in the workplace, with intention + joy.
I recently published an article on board succession planning in Community Association Institute's Common Ground magazine's November/December edition. The article was written specifically for homeowners associations and community association boards—the volunteer leaders who govern neighborhoods, condos, and planned communities. But like so many other topics, there is nothing in that article for community association boards that departs from the advice I'd give to nonprofit board members. The...
This week's Leaving Well podcast features Katya Fels Smyth, who just did what most nonprofit leaders think is impossible: she wound down the Full Frame Initiative after 15 years — proactively, with integrity, and in partnership with her community. Not because she had to, but because staying wasn't serving the mission anymore. Who gets to decide they're leaving? What are the implications? Who's left holding the bag? These aren't just operational questions. They're power and justice questions....
Let's talk about the question your board isn't asking out loud: Is it time for our ED/CEO to leave? Not because they're failing. Not because they're old. But because the organization likely needs something different than what they can deliver right now, or needs to prepare for when that time comes. New McKinsey research on 200 top CEOs found that leaders in their final stage—"Winter"—have predictable blind spots. The most critical one: recognizing when to leave is a leadership competency, and...