Retain and Gain: Career Management for Non-Profits and Charities

This Playbook identifies 40+ low-cost tips, activities and actions that non-profits and charities can take right now (some in only 10 minutes a day) to attract, engage and retain staff. Written in an innovative travel guide format, author Lisa Taylor includes special sections on new graduates, the aging workforce and precarious employment, and provides planning templates and links to unique resources. The Playbook, published by CERIC, also features research, facts and statistics that shed new light on Canada’s non-profit workforce.

Career management - even for the smallest non-profits - offers a strategic lever for stronger performance. Indeed, career management affects more than just employee satisfaction and loyalty. It drives better client service, faster identification of ways to deliver on your mission and increased opportunity for growth - for staff as well as for your organization.

If as an Executive Director or people manager, you worry about any of the following, this Playbook is for you:

Engaging and retaining employees Finding the right talent and recruitment
Developing new leadership candidates and managers Providing career development for employees
Compensating and rewarding employees

The Playbook shows you how to address your most critical employee challenges by debunking the common misconception that non-profits with flat organizational structures, and limited time and resources, can’t establish good career practices. It provides practical career management tools for you to use with employees in ways that advance thriving careers and build the capacity of the non-profit sector.