Leadership

85,000 registered charities in Canada. Competition for talented staff at a time when ‘Boomers’ are retiring. Increasing sophistication level of donors, clients and particularly boards.

Leadership is widely recognized as critical to an organization’s success, but the development of emerging talent within an organization can be an expensive and time consuming process. For many non-profit organizations with lean budgets, it’s tough to justify expenditure on building human capital. Add in the pressure most feel around achieving annual operational goals and performance targets and it is easy to understand why the idea of devoting time and energy to identifying and cultivating leadership potential may seem like a ‘luxury’ they can ill afford.

But for the reasons mentioned above, it is becoming clear that developing leadership is something that the sector can ill afford ‘not’ to make a priority.