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Competency Based Governance Enters the Health Care Boardroom
Trustee Articles
The role of a health care organization trustee is getting more complicated and more sophisticated every day. Pressures are increasing simultaneously for higher quality, lower cost, more transparency and accountability, and use of evolving and ever-more-expensive technology.
Peer Assessment Instruments
Trustee Articles
These documents are based on CHP’s core values, the CHP board’s roles and responsibilities, and the expectations established for CHP’s board members. They may or may not fit other boards’ situations. Each board should adopt its own individual competencies and evaluation instrument. Reviewing others’ efforts is a helpful reference point, but no sample should be used without modification.
Evaluating the Board Chair
Trustee Articles
A board committed to continuous improvement realizes that the value of assessing its performance goes beyond meeting Joint Commission or other external requirements. It knows that regular self-evaluation gives it the information needed to understand and build on its strengths and identify and minimize its weaknesses.
Is Your Board Bored with Self Assessment?
Trustee Articles
Board self‐evaluation is an important process. Surveys by The Governance Institute have shown that making self‐assessment a board priority is associated with high performing boards. Yet, amidst seemingly more important board business, it’s easy for self‐assessment to become a rote exercise.
Evaluating Individual Trustees' Performance
Trustee Articles
As the drumbeat of attention to governance effectiveness intensifies, the evaluation of individual directors is off-limits no more. Indeed, the New York Stock Exchange, Business Roundtable and National Association of Corporate Directors all recommend that corporate boards institute individual director assessment.
Doing Board Self-Assessments That Actually Matter
Trustee Articles
While most organizations conduct annual board self-assessments, it seems that few boards actually use the results of those assessments to develop specific plans for improvement. According to PriceWaterhouseCooper’s 2017 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, board members’ dissatisfaction with their fellow trustees has reached an all-time high.
Board Evaluation Process Overview
Evaluations and Assessments
The attached resource is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs.
Seven Steps to Designing an Effective Education Process
Board Checklists
A successful governance education process requires commitment, collaboration and consensus. Below is an outline of how a board of trustees may design a process that will ensure optimum development of leadership knowledge and effectiveness...
Seven Steps to Designing an Effective Governance Education Process Tool
Board Checklists
A successful governance education process requires commitment, collaboration and consensus. This resource serves as an outline of how a board of trustees may design a process that will ensure optimum development of leadership knowledge and effectiveness.
Fiduciary Duties - Best Practices
Board Checklists
Boards that want to improve their approach to conflicts of interest and independence management do the following...