Board, CEO and staff succession planning are essential to ensuring tomorrow’s purpose-driven organization. Personnel change is inevitable in every organization. Often, such change can be challenging, especially when vacancies occur in leadership positions. This course focuses on the board’s responsibility and role in ensuring that the cooperative has a succession plan in place for the CEO and its overall leadership. Also discussed is the board’s role in ensuring that the CEO has a process in place to ensure ongoing development of the organization’s workforce potential and a plan to ensure leadership continuity and quality.
