Institute for Supply Management – Northern Virginia Chapter

Leadership Plan

Leadership Plan

Purpose: To assure leadership is adequately trained and knowledgeable on ISM offerings, policies, and preferred methodologies and to assure adequate succession planning is in place.

Leadership Plan

Current officers will mentor elected officers for a period of two months post elections.

Affiliate leadership will encourage participation at ISM Leadership training at the annual ISM Conferences.

All presidents will have or will attend ISM Leadership training prior to or during the course of their tenure.

Leaders will canvas for new officers as part of affiliate networking, first to fulfill their own position, and then to fill other positions within the board.

The leadership will take care to be open and receptive to adding diversity and ideas and encourage new participants and new approaches while avoiding recycling of existing officers.

Young members will be encouraged to bring “fresh” ideas in keeping with trying to keep the organization with a broad spectrum.

Leadership Plan

At least one of our educational sessions will be geared toward membership and will include participation by those who have been to leadership training to cross-pollinate information gained at the ISM Leadership training during the Annual Conference.

An Executive Sponsor position will be filled to offer “C-Suite” ideas to the Board of Directors.

Past-Presidents will be encouraged to mentor and help the Board of Directors as needed.

Opportunities to volunteer for committees will be made available so that more junior or in-experienced professionals have a chance to be groomed for future positions.