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Building an Effective CEO-Board Partnership

The past few years have only made things harder for new CEOs, with the impact of COVID-19 creating a volatile, politicized environment on top of existential organizational challenges. Even with all that, a big surprise for a new CEO is how much time and energy are required to establish and nurture an effective strategic partnership with your board so as to add value to the organization.

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.

Health Care Governance in Changing Times

To navigate the choppy waters ahead, hospital and health system boards need to develop a plan to reengage all trustees and renew CEO and board leadership collaboration.

What Boards Should Know about Cybersecurity

HA has developed What Boards Should Know about Cybersecurity to assist trustees in asking key questions about their hospital or health system’s cybersecurity protocols.

Financial Turnaround Needs Board Oversight

boards must become more involved in the oversight of the financial turnaround of their organizations than they did in past periods of lessor financial challenge. This may involve a board monitoring levels of detail that would have previously been inappropriate. But, when a hospital or system is facing an existential threat, it becomes a governance issue and it is appropriate and necessary for a board to engage more deeply than it did in the past.

Diverse Board Members Offer Their Perspectives

Open discussion, continued engagement and genuine effort can support meaningful and sustainable change for board diversity efforts.

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.

How Children’s Minnesota Makes DEI Efforts a Priority

Through leadership and board support, Children’s Minnesota is making DEI efforts a strategic priority.

11 Principles for Health System Governance

A WellSpan Health task force developed meaningful principles that signaled a changed approach to governance at the health system.

Creating a More Diverse and Inclusive Board

Starting discussion in the boardroom about diversity and inclusion can support and accelerate board diversity efforts at health care organizations.