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Executives

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ArticleExecutives
Leadership Competencies
Here are the five essential skills and qualities that comprise exceptional leadership, which Leading Edge strives to foster in our executive programs.
ReportOrganizational Culture
State of The Jewish Workplace 2023
Based on data from 18,212 employees and 304 CEOs at 327 organizations, this report shares findings about how things were going at work for employees and leaders in Jewish nonprofit organizations in May 2023.
ReportExecutives
What Is It Like to Lead Jewish Nonprofits? Results from the Second Annual CEO Survey
This report shares findings from Leading Edge’s second CEO Survey, drawing on the experiences of 222 leaders of Jewish nonprofits from around North America.
GuideExecutives
How to Create a CEO Performance Evaluation
This resource lays out six steps for boards and leaders to create and implement a formal executive evaluation process.
GuideExecutives
Do I Want This Job? A Rubric for Jewish Nonprofit CEO Candidates
Whether you're being considered for a CEO position yourself or mentoring someone else in that situation, this document will help you systematically think through the question: is this executive leadership position the right match?
ReportExecutives
The Gender Gap in Jewish Nonprofit Leadership: An Ecosystem View
Addressing five causes can make significant progress in closing the persistent and large gender gap among CEOs at Jewish nonprofit organizations.
GuideBoards
Pass the Torch: Succession Planning for Founding CEOs and their Boards
Designed with founding CEOs and their boards in mind, Pass The Torch is a starting point for effective succession. Whether the leadership transition is years or months away and whether the Board knows when it’s coming or is planning for the inevitable, succession planning can be healthy, robust, and enable the organization’s long-term health.
ReportExecutives
CEO Succession: Case Studies of Excellence from the Jewish Nonprofit Sector
These case studies offer a candid, personal look at the inner workings of CEO transition processes at six major Jewish organizations.
GuideExecutives
CEO Search Committee Guide
Leading Edge partnered with a Senior Editor from Harvard Business Review to distill the most important elements of running a successful nonprofit CEO search.

Boards

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ReportBoards
Jewish Nonprofit Boards: CEO Perceptions & Actions for Better Governance
Based on data from a survey of 304 CEOs in May 2023 and a qualitative research project based on 36 CEO interviews in summer 2023, this report shares findings on how CEOs of Jewish nonprofits perceive their boards.
GuideBoards
Pass the Torch: Succession Planning for Founding CEOs and their Boards
Designed with founding CEOs and their boards in mind, Pass The Torch is a starting point for effective succession. Whether the leadership transition is years or months away and whether the Board knows when it’s coming or is planning for the inevitable, succession planning can be healthy, robust, and enable the organization’s long-term health.
GuideBoards
People-Centered Leadership: A Toolkit for Incoming CEOs and the Board Chairs Supporting Them
This toolkit was created to guide the volunteer-professional partnership between the board chair and the CEO just beginning their leadership role. A true partnership of this nature can only be achieved through thoughtful attention to building the relationship, especially at the start of a new CEO`s tenure.
ReportBoards
Call to Action: How Lay Leaders Can Overcome the Jewish Community’s Leadership Pipeline Challenge
This report outlines practical steps lay leaders can take to help address the barriers keeping Jewish organizations from having the robust talent pipeline they need.
GuideExecutives
CEO Search Committee Guide
Leading Edge partnered with a Senior Editor from Harvard Business Review to distill the most important elements of running a successful nonprofit CEO search.

Organizational Culture

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ArticleOrganizational Culture
What is Employee Engagement?
“Employee engagement” means being motivated to do your best work, proud to work at your organization, likely to stay working there, and likely to recommend your organization to others as a place to work. Here's why it’s so important for organizational performance.
ArticleOrganizational Culture
Resources for Managing Teams with Diverse Viewpoints
Disagreements on a team about passionately held beliefs can be painful. But when organizations manage diversity of viewpoints well, it can be a superpower. This topic is sensitive, complex, and difficult, but here are some resources that might help.
ArticleOrganizational Culture
Supporting People in Diaspora Jewish Nonprofits During the Crisis in Israel
Our hearts are with the people of Israel as they try to be resilient in the face of recent heartbreaking and terrifying events. The Jewish nonprofit sector in North America is deeply bound up with communities in Israel. Leadership and culture are never more important than when times are hard. It is in that spirit that we share this brief list of thoughts, ideas, and resources for supporting the people who are the Jewish nonprofit sector at this time.
ReportOrganizational Culture
State of The Jewish Workplace 2023
Based on data from 18,212 employees and 304 CEOs at 327 organizations, this report shares findings about how things were going at work for employees and leaders in Jewish nonprofit organizations in May 2023.
ArticleTalent Management
Don’t Salaries Matter? Of Work, Weasels, and Employee Engagement in the Nonprofit Sector
Writing in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Leading Edge President & CEO Gali Cooks and Chief Strategy Officer Amy Born explain how biting weasels explain the relationship between salaries and employee engagement.
ReportOrganizational Culture
Are Jewish Organizations Great Places to Work? Results from the Sixth Annual Employee Experience Survey (2022)
Are Jewish organizations great places to work? Not yet—but we’re striving.
ArticleOrganizational Culture
Effective Feedback: Two Models for Managers
Two models (plus some additional tips) to help supervisors give useful, effective feedback to their direct reports.
ArticleOrganizational Culture
How a Lack of Negative Criticism Can Make NGO Employees Feel Unsafe
ArticleOrganizational Culture
Placing Organizational Culture at the Center
The Chief Strategy Officer of Leading Edge explains what it means to put the employee experience at the center of how we think about our work.

Talent Management

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ArticleTalent Management
Don’t Salaries Matter? Of Work, Weasels, and Employee Engagement in the Nonprofit Sector
Writing in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Leading Edge President & CEO Gali Cooks and Chief Strategy Officer Amy Born explain how biting weasels explain the relationship between salaries and employee engagement.
ArticleTalent Management
Humanize Your Hiring Process — Here’s Why and How
Writing in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Leading Edge COO Mordy Walfish discusses what it means to have a truly human hiring process, and shares six steps Leading Edge has taken recently to improve.
ArticleTalent Management
Crafting Your Jewish Organization’s Reproductive Care Policy
Providing Jewish organizations with guidance to develop and implement benefits that support employee reproductive health, regardless of where in the United States they live.
ArticleTalent Management
Office, Hybrid, and More: Models for the New Workplace
As vaccination rates rise and restrictions abate, leaders face new decisions and challenges about where and how we work together.
ArticleTalent Management
Remote Work Resources
As remote and hybrid work arrangements continue, organizations still need guidance on how to manage workers remotely and encourage employee engagement.
GuideTalent Management
Salary Bands: Valuing Talent with Intention and Transparency
Salary bands promote consistency, equity, fairness, increased transparency.
GuideTalent Management
A Guide to Recruiting and Hiring
This guide aims to empower every Jewish nonprofit to utilize an equity lens to find and hire stellar team members so that their organization can succeed
ArticleTalent Management
Quick Tips for Virtual Onboarding
Create a fun and effective virtual onboarding experience.
GuideTalent Management
Employee Handbook Best Practices
A guide for explaining how things work at work.

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