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Creating the Right Boardroom Conversations
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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. Agendas should reflect the most important strategic issues and priorities, and make efficient use of trustees’ valuable and limited time; meetings should be designed to maximize trustees’ ability to engage in critical dialogue; and committees and task forces should be used to enable the board to focus time on high-level strategic discussion.
Get a Strategic Edge at This Years Rural Leadership Conference
As a kid, I remember that the best roller coasters were the ones that were both terrifying and exhilarating.
Managing Capital Project Risks in a Challenging Environment
Trustee Articles
This monograph discusses today’s market environment, current capital market perspective and related risks, and then outlines a project management approach and questions that must be addressed to help board members and executives more effectively manage capital project risks while achieving organizational strategies and goals.
Increase the Financial Impact of Philanthropy
Trustee Articles
The strategic use of organizational dollars has become a regular topic around the governing board table. However, within this conversation, one potential source of revenue is often overlooked or utilized in a less strategic manner: charitable giving.
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.
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.
Principles and Best Practices for Effective Governance
Trustee Articles
The trustees of one health system were divided over how to structure the board. Some favored proportional representation from its acute care, nursing home and elder services divisions; others wanted all at-large members with no interests to promote.
The CEO of another health system had restructured so facility executives were directly accountable to corporate management for finances and operations. He wanted local boards to focus on strategic direction and oversight of quality, but local boards continued monthly monitoring of finances as they’d always done. Some trustees wondered what their role was.
Ready for the Unthinkable
Trustee Articles
An emergency succession plan may never be used, but it’s still a necessity for every hospital. A key function of every board is to ensure that effective leadership is in place so that the institution it governs can continue to achieve its mission, vision and strategic goals.
Top 10 Practices of Great Boards
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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...