A Guest Post from Chris Tobin, Founder of Flywheel Advancement
Workforce instability is a common challenge for many nonprofits, especially when recruiting experienced senior leaders. To help navigate these important transitions, many organizations turn to interim (or fractional) management as a short-term solution to maintain stability and stay aligned with their mission goals.
If your organization loses something every time a person leaves, you are not behind and you are not alone. It is one of the most common things a growing team runs into, and it is rarely about the people who left.
The new development associate was three weeks in, two of her logins had not been provisioned, and her manager had rescheduled their one-on-one twice. The organization was, at that moment, in the slow process of giving her every reason to leave by month six, by accident.