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Assessing Overall Board Effectiveness: Key Elements for Success to Consider

Investing time now in evaluating and enhancing board effectiveness can accelerate organizational results for years to come.

Evidence-Based Approaches Make Succession Planning More Intentional and Effective

Proper hiring of people at all levels needs to be done with a focus on succession planning. Hiring should not be done in a vacuum and must weigh the short- and long-term departmental and broader organizational needs. Leaders need to surround themselves with others whose skills complement their own.

5 Steps to Achieving Diversity on Your Board

Focusing on specific strategies and practices will support diverse recruitment on health care boards.

Is It Time to Refresh Your Bylaws?

Trustee Articles
Up-to-date, clearly written and concisely constructed bylaws can support oversight of current performance and enable an organization to nimbly confront challenges to its viability.

Seven Techniques to Strengthen Board Decision Making

Evaluations and Assessments
Effective decision making often requires different techniques or approaches for different types of decisions. The following techniques and practices can help support and strengthen your board’s decision-making processes.

The Leadership Audit

Evaluations and Assessments
To understand how the organization really functions on a day-to-day basis, boards need to gauge the hospital’s work life and its efficacy. Board responsibilities include: (a) understanding the hospital’s operating model and whether it actually performs in that mode, how critical decisions are made, and the hospital’s ability to recognize its own problems and “self-correct”; and (b) ensuring that it happens.

Governance Leadership of Quality

Trustee Articles
A diagnostic tool and organization assessment can help boards address barriers to effective quality oversight.