[foundation-board] OK next steps

Wed Sep 17 07:12:07 UTC 2014

Thanks for the summary Karin - looks great.

Jay, nice to meet you!

In terms of search firms, a previous business used Odgers
http://www.odgersberndtson.co.uk/gb/client-services/executive-search/ and
they were on the shortlist for at least one other search i've been involved
in.  I've also had experience mostly with tech-centric groups such as
http://www.baileyfisher.com/ (probably not so relevant in this case!)

Best regards,

Laura

On 16 September 2014 23:28, Karin Christiansen <k.christiansen at party.coop>
wrote:

>  Dear all –
>
>
>
> Firstly can I introduce Penny and Jay.
>
> ·         Penny has just joined the ON Human Capital team and started
> really working with Rufus on Laura on Friday.
>
> ·         Jay, also from ON, is kindly going to help us with the search,
> and make sure we get value out of the search company.  *Jay, there are
> some notes in the below on the decisions we made, and some questions for
> you also.*
>
>
>
> Round up of the various conversations for the last few days with Penny and
> Jay, and from the call this evening with Helen and Tom. I have underlined
> the actionable stuff to help navigate.
>
> Rufus is leading on the comms work around the launch of this, and Laura on
> the project planning for this.
>
>
>
> The “project” with ON has the following components.
>
> 1.       Leadership search – see below
>
> 2.       Planning for next year (plus any strategy refinements that
> requires)
>
> 3.       Organisation change – outstanding HR issue, ops, structure etc
> work NB with an emphasis on form following function.
>
> 4.       Capacity building – coaching and management team building,
> training, all based on the values and culture with the team (which could go
> in either section and is the foundation of everything else)
>
>
>
> Re.* leadership search, *from my conversation with Jay, but added to
> based on the board conversation this evening.  This search likely to need
> to get to a lot of “passive” candidates so we are going to need to get
> people reaching out and talking to people who currently in great jobs and
> need to have this sold to them as an exciting opportunity.  Which
> fortunately it is!  Jay’s, estimate from his extensive experience is 4-6
> months for the candidate to be in post. But we need to get moving quick as
> the holiday season is a dead time for such things.
>
>
>
> 1.       Selection committee selection –that is Helen, Jane, me and Tom*.
> We discussed this evening it, would be possible to get a representative
> involved from the community?  Helen is going to follow up on the board
> conversation on this point.* The main time commitment here will be
> contact with prospective candidates.
>
>
>
> 2.       Location of the post – this has a major bearing on the search
> company.  From the call and talking with others, it is clear we are looking
> around the world, but the person is likely to need to spend a majority of
> their time in the UK where the largest concentration of team members are.
> So they are likely to need to be UK based, but if they lived in Europe and
> were up for commuting to the UK a lot that might be considered.   This
> isn’t saying anything about the future, but right now, the sense is the
> team needs an easy geographical locus.
>
>
>
> 3.       Search firm recruitment – *anyone with experience of UK search
> firms, or great individuals, please send them Jay’s way.  Jay is that okay?
> * NB we need to get this going next week, so names asap.
>
>
>
> 4.       Nailing the job spec – this is part of the search firms role,
> but the clearer we are on this the better.  *Jay, do you have suggested
> next steps?  Is there way we can also include the community in this part in
> a way that is genuine but doesn’t slow things down.  Helen is again to pick
> this up.*
>
>
>
> 5.       Collecting candidates – making sure great people are reached out
> to, the network and staff will be key to this.
>
>
>
> 6.       Shortlisted interviewees by the selection committee
>
>
>
> 7.       Full Board interview of final 2 or so candidates – if we haven’t
> manage to find a community member to join the search committee perhaps they
> can join here.
>
>
>
> Please do add what I have missed!
>
>
>
> Karin
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> *Karin Christiansen*
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