Organizational Assessment

The Lark Theatre Company was embarking on an ambitious plan to acquire a larger facility to accommodate expanded programming. The founding Executive Director, who was leading this growth plan, was however also supervising the administrative and development functions in addition to providing artistic leadership.

Through a foundation grant matched by the Board of Directors, I was asked to conduct a Management Assessment and then to serve as Interim Administrative Director to develop the organizational structures necessary to support this growth, create job descriptions for the new positions, and temporarily supervise the administrative and development staff to enable the Executive Director to relinquish the day to day administrative supervision.

The Executive Director of the National Alliance of Musical Theatres was planning to resign. The organization was entering the implementation phase for its major fall programs and needed to transfer interim leadership responsibility for the projects to the senior staff, pending recruitment of a new executive director. pending I was asked to help the staff and Board to prepare for this transfer of responsibility. Working with the Executive Director, we analyzed the pending projects and the strengths of the current staff. I met with each staff member to understand their interests and priorities, developed a tentative project plan which was then refined and agreed on through meetings with the entire staff and the board chair.

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