Tweed-Weber Announces a Turnkey, Cost-Effective Nonprofit Executive Director/CEO Performance Evaluation

Reading, PA - As of September 2012, there were 1,080,130 charitable and religious tax-exempt organizations in the U.S. 82.3 percent of them had operating budgets of less than $1million.* Each of these organizations, however, has an Executive Director (President/CEO) who plays an essential role in the organization and materially impacts the organization’s ability to fulfill its mission and create sustainability for future generations. Without an effective Executive Director, the organization is leaderless and, without a leader, the organization and its future are in jeopardy.

 

As we enter the fourth quarter of the year, not-for-profits operating on a calendar year are once again faced with the essential task of evaluating the performance of their Executive Director. This activity may be among the most important tasks a board is asked to perform. It is on virtually every governance best practice list.  

 

While few boards would question the need to evaluate their Executive Director’s performance, many might ask how it should be done. Implementation considerations include:

• What questions should be asked on an Executive Director’s evaluation? 
• How should those questions be answered? What kind of a scale should be used?
• How can every board member participate in the process? 
• How can the performance evaluations be collected? 
• How can the results of the evaluations be aggregated and analyzed? 
• What should the final evaluation look like once it is completed?
• How can the process be as complete and professional as possible?

Tweed-Weber, Inc. has developed and tested a turn-key performance evaluation process for not-for-profit Executive Directors that answers these questions. It has facilitated this evaluation process for a wide range of not-for-profit organizations, and the outcome delivers to these organizations the information they need to evaluate and communicate their Executive Director’s annual performance.

 

The evaluation enables the board to evaluate its Executive Director in the following areas:

•  Knowledge and experience
• Judgment 
• Community leadership
• Organizational leadership
• Communication
• Initiative
• Fiscal responsibility
• Strategic direction
• Adaptability
• Planning
• Employee development
• Overall performance 

 

It also provides the opportunity for directors to answer three essential open-ended questions regarding the Executive Director:

• Most important accomplishments during the past year
• Areas of focus for the coming year
• Personal skills, capabilities, and/or characteristics worthy of development 

   

This evaluation is conducted online and a complete report is submitted to the board within ten days of the survey’s “close” date. It is a complete one-stop process that makes it simple and easy for a board to fulfill this important governance responsibility and acknowledged best practice. Because Tweed-Weber understands the budget constraints of most not-for-profit organizations, especially the 82.3 percent of small not-for-profits operating under $1 million in revenue, it is offering this entire evaluation process from beginning to end for just $595.

  

For more information, contact Tweed-Weber through any of the following methods: via telephone at 1-800-999-6615, by email at mail@tweedweber.com, on LinkedIn (Tweed-Weber, Inc.), or on Twitter (@TweedWeber).

 

   

*National Council of Nonprofits.