Staffing For Nonprofit Success

Aligning Talent with Your Nonprofit’s Mission for Maximum Impact

What you’ll learn
What staff deployment is, and is not, in the recruitment and retention of paid team members.
The four steps of developing a nonprofit staff deployment approach.
How to engage all team members in designing a deployment plan, with an emphasis on transparency and communication.
How everyone–even those not in HR roles–can contribute to strategic staff deployment efforts.
The three levels of building strong staff deployment practices in your nonprofit.
The importance of harnessing your nonprofit team members’ skills, abilities, and interests.
Tips and tricks, such as career trajectory modeling, mapping training needs, and growth and purpose visualizations.
Two common tools that help teams set goals to improve their deployment approaches: self assessment and annual reviews.

Requirements
No prerequisites needed!

Description
About this topic…The capacity for skillful staff deployment is a measure of the nonprofit’s ability to effectively manage its paid staff.What You Will LearnWhat staff deployment is, and is not, in the recruitment and retention of paid team members.The three levels of building strong staff deployment practices in your nonprofit.The four steps of developing a nonprofit staff deployment approach.The importance of harnessing your nonprofit team members’ skills, abilities, and interests.How to engage all team members in designing a deployment plan, with an emphasis on transparency and communication.Tips and tricks, such as career trajectory modeling, mapping training needs, and growth and purpose visualizations.How everyone–even those not in HR roles–can contribute to strategic staff deployment efforts.Two common tools that help teams set goals to improve their deployment approaches: self assessment and annual reviews.Who is this topic for?This learning path offers on-the-ground guidance for those involved in designing and overseeing the various roles in our nonprofits. And because all team members can be involved in mapping action to strategy, all team members will find this series interesting in its approach to goal-setting, leadership, and engagement.This series is key for learning nonprofit human resources best practices surrounding getting the most alignment from each person and position!This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies:Managing ComplexityDevelops TalentOptimizing Work ProcessesBuilds Effective Teams

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Staff Deployment

Lecture 2 Introduction to Staffing for Nonprofit Success

Lecture 3 Downloadable Workbook

Section 2: Bronze 1: What is Staff Deployment?

Lecture 4 What you can expect in this lesson

Lecture 5 What is staff deployment?

Lecture 6 Why does staff deployment matter?

Section 3: Bronze 2: Skills that Support Staff Deployment

Lecture 7 Skills that Support Staff Deployment

Section 4: Bronze 3: What Does Effective Staff Deployment Look Like?

Lecture 8 What does effective staff deployment look like?

Lecture 9 Measuring Staff Deployment Capacity

Section 5: Silver 1: Activating our Staff Deployment Abilities

Lecture 10 What you can expect in this badge

Lecture 11 Activating our Staff Deployment Abilities

Lecture 12 Leading Staff Deployment Efforts

Section 6: Silver 2: Building Strong Staff Deployment Practices in Your Nonprofit

Lecture 13 Building Strong Staff Deployment Practices in your Nonprofit

Section 7: Silver 3: How to Set Goals Around Staff Deployment for Yourself

Lecture 14 How to Set Goals Around Staff Deployment for Yourself

Lecture 15 How to Set Goals Around Staff Deployment for Your Nonprofit

Section 8: Gold 1: Getting Motivated to Build Deployment Abilities

Lecture 16 What you can expect

Lecture 17 Getting Motivated to Build Deployment Abilities

Lecture 18 Motivating Others to Build Effective Deployment Practices

Section 9: Gold 2: Reviewing Staff Deployment

Lecture 19 Reviewing Staff Deployment

This learning path offers on-the-ground guidance for those involved in designing and overseeing the various roles in our nonprofits.