A combination of skills, knowledge, behaviors, or attributes required to perform a role effectively.
What is a competency?
Three Search Consultants, Two Talent Recruiters and One Managing Directo
Who makes up the BGCA CEO Search Team?
These leaders in Clubs are the focus of BGCA’s Executive Development work.
Who are CEOs?
This professional in-person development experience is commonly referred to by the acronym CDA.
What is Club Directors Academy?
This is often a leader’s first learning experience in a new role—and one of the most important. We offer experiences for CEOs, Operations Leaders, and Club Directors.
What is onboarding?
This initiative certifies in-house trainers at Boys & Girls Club Organizations through four progressive levels, expanding access to training resources and local collaboration.
What is the National Trainers Initiative?
The team that helps hire a Club’s next CEO
What is a Search Committee?
Every new CEO must go through this 18-month process once they start their new role.
What is the New CEO Onboarding Process?
New Club Directors are required to participate in this virtual professional development experience within their first 12 months in the role.
What is Club Directors Orientation (CDO)?
These Leadership Development tools describe the skills, behaviors, and mindsets needed to be successful in specific roles.
What are success profiles?
This learning object type allows learners to complete training online, on their own schedule, without the need to attend in-person sessions.
What is a distance learning course?
A Fair, Consistent Process
What is the main goal of the BGCA CEO Search Team?
This book, written by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner is the foundation of our Leadership Framework.
What is The Leadership Challenge?
Leadership NEXT is a seven-month experiential learning program designed to prepare selected high-potential candidates for this executive-level role.
What is Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
This learning model shows that leadership growth mostly happens through real-world experience, not just formal classes.
What is the 70/20/10 Model?
A comprehensive training site dedicated to enabling Clubs to have the most impact as possible on youth by strengthening the leadership capabilities of staff at every level of the organization.
What is Spillett Leadership University?
93%
What is our Board Satisfaction Rate?
In the 70/20/10 Development Model, the 20% is defined by this critical component to development.
What is coaching and/or mentoring?
Operations Leader Orientation is an in-person, interactive forum designed to develop strategic, operations, and leadership excellence and lasts this many days.
What are 3 days?
This is one of our ultimate outcomes in Leadership Development, along with increased leadership and organizational performance
What is increased retention in key roles?
This group represents the voice of Boys & Girls Club professionals by recognizing achievements, connecting members for support, and providing scholarships for trainings, workshops, and conferences.
What is the Professional Association?
3,300
What is the number of CEO applicants in 2025?
These are the three team members that lead the Executive Development work.
Who are Greg Kimbrough, Jacqueline Williams & Joe Ethier?
Club Directors Academy reinforces this Five Practices leadership principle that calls leaders to set the standard through their own behavior before expecting it from others.
What is Modeling the Way
These are observable, measurable skills and behaviors that define how leaders perform and succeed—and they guide how we design learning, support growth, and assess leadership effectiveness.
What are Korn Ferry competencies?