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Making Executive Sessions Work
A four-part executive session meeting model can lead to effective governance.
Creating the Right Boardroom Conversations
Trustee Articles
Establishing well-organized and consistent governance processes and procedures enables the board to be most productive, and ensures that its time is allocated to the most critical topics.
Deliberate Decision-making and the Effective Board
Trustee Articles
High performing boards learn how to make decisions at the right time using the right processes.
How to Make the Most of Your Board's Time
Trustee Articles
Staying forward-focused as a trustee requires a combination of time management, prioritization and preventive efforts.
New Approaches to Effective Board Decision Making
Trustee Articles
Seven techniques can help support and strengthen your board's decision-making processes.
Better Board Meetings
Trustee Articles
What if the typical hospital board meeting — multiple hours spent on endless pages of financial data, slide after slide of bullet points and little time left for meaningful discussion — could be more engaging and less time-consuming? With some planning and practice, boards and senior executives can make this happen.
Conflict Manager: The Board Chair's Unsung Role
Trustee Articles
Board chairs are often chosen based on peer respect, professional knowledge, demonstrated commitment such as chairing a board committee, and willingness to put in the time required. A somewhat surprising finding to emerge from the AHA’s 2011 Governance Survey is that conflict management is an important yet seldom discussed role of the board chair.
Use and Abuse of Executive Sessions
Trustee Articles
Governing boards traditionally call executive sessions from time to time to discuss confidential, proprietary or personnel related matters in closed session. In recent years, however, the increasing emphasis on board independence and vigilance has triggered a new use for executive sessions.
Board Meeting Evaluation
Trustee Articles
Board self-assessment is widely recognized as a fundamental building block of continuous governance improvement. For the past 20 years, many healthcare organization governing boards have engaged in full board performance evaluations, often on an annual basis. These evaluations are designed to assess the board’s knowledge of its roles and responsibilities and how well the board as a whole is discharging them.