Finding the right person for your team is incredibly important. The success of a non-profit organization, or any organization for that matter, depends upon the strengths and talents of its employees. They are the thinkers, the creators, and the innovators that drive an organization. They deliver the services, build relationships with stakeholders and become the organization’s link to the community. Hiring the right person requires a careful investment of time and effort – a tall order when you are pressured by a lack of time and resources. A successful hire opens up the potential to promote and enrich your organizational culture and enables innovation and growth. On the other hand, a mistake in hiring is costly and exhausting for an organization in the long run. In an environment where our budgets are stretched and our HR resources are scare, a creative and intentional look at how we are hiring our people could be just the ticket!
Five Good Resources:
- HR Council for the Voluntary Non-Profit Sector, HR Management Toolkit.
- Finding and Keeping Great Employees, Jim Harris and Joan Brannick, AMACOM/American Management Association, 2007.
- Secrets of Hiring Top Talent, Daniel Abramson, 2005.
- First Things First, Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, Free Press, 1996.
- The War for Talent, Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Agency, 2001.
Suzie Addison-Toor
Engage Consulting
Suzie Addison-Toor has a non-profit head, heart and soul! Her well-balanced experience base has enabled her to tap into all facets of non-profit leadership and management. With over 15 years of successful career experience in executive management and leadership development, she passionately enables organizations to reduce risks while improving results.
Past highlight accomplishments include: founding and directing a charitable organization called Addus and successfully transitioning the organization to its next stage of executive leadership, facilitating Altruvest’s BoardWorx Program, a peer-learning group for Executive Directors from all sectors of Toronto’s non-profit community and managing the YM/YWCA’s outdoor education centre in Victoria B.C.
Suzie has recently founded Engage Consulting. Engage Consulting helps organizations take advantage of executive leadership transitions as unique opportunities for reflection, change and growth. She has also developed a network of like-minded consultants that fluidly support organizations through training, coaching and strategy consulting.
Suzie is a certified OneSmartWorld’s® facilitator and a trained Executive Transition Management Practitioner. She uses an advanced set of tools and processes to deliver practical solutions to support executive transitions, executive mentorship, supervisory training and teambuilding activities.
