Staff Deployment Courses

About this learning path...

The capacity for skillful staff deployment is a measure of the nonprofit's ability to effectively manage its paid staff.

Full participation in this certificate is applicable for 3 points in Category 1.B Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

What You Will Learn

What staff deployment is, and is not, in the recruitment and retention of paid team members.

The three levels of building strong staff deployment practices in your nonprofit.

The four steps of developing a nonprofit staff deployment approach.

The importance of harnessing your nonprofit team members' skills, abilities, and interests.

How to engage all team members in designing a deployment plan, with an emphasis on transparency and communication.

Tips and tricks, such as career trajectory modeling, mapping training needs, and growth and purpose visualizations.

How everyone--even those not in HR roles--can contribute to strategic staff deployment efforts.

Two common tools that help teams set goals to improve their deployment approaches: self assessment and annual reviews.

Who is this learning path for?

This learning path offers on-the-ground guidance for those involved in designing and overseeing the various roles in our nonprofits. And because all team members can be involved in mapping action to strategy, all team members will find this series interesting in its approach to goal-setting, leadership, and engagement.

This series is key for learning nonprofit human resources best practices surrounding getting the most alignment from each person and position!

This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies: