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How to Put Your Strategic Plan to Work
The board’s foremost responsibility is to own the organization’s mission and vision and ensure a consistent focus on the strategic path to achieve them.
Sample Board Chair Selection Process Guideline
Trustee Articles
The following is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs.
Top 10 Practices of Great Boards
Checklists
Be sure every member fully understands his or her accountability, responsibilities and the expectations of the office, and document it all in a written position description...
Board Development: A Marathon Not a Sprint
Trustee Articles
Whether a board’s starting point is average performance or mediocrity, the journey to the top echelon of governance effectiveness cannot be achieved with a few quick steps. Board development is more like a marathon than a sprint.
Board Practices that Separate the Best from the Rest
Trustee Articles
The AHA’s 2011 Governance Survey shows that good governance practices continue to take hold among hospitals and health systems. Driven by powerful economic pressures and stringent legal requirements to be visionary, strategic, diligent and independent, boards are applying various “good governance” practices, including competency-based succession planning, board orientation and education, routine executive sessions, CEO retention planning, and board self-evaluation.
Engaging Boards in Disruptive Innovation
Trustee Articles
Hospitals and systems must understand the threats posed by market disruptors and craft specific strategies to protect their missions.
2020 Actions for the Board Compensation Committee
Trustee Articles
Boards should assess the impact of change on their organization’s executive compensation program and committee practices.
Coaching: A Critical Tool for Board Chair Development
Trustee Articles
Making coaching available to an incoming board chair can build the chair's capacity to lead the board effectively.
Recruiting Millennials to the Hospital Board
Trustee Articles
Millennials use the health care system in a unique way. Trustees must be attentive to their views and recruit them to the board for its long-term sustainability.