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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.
Strategic Planning Committee Sample Charter
Board and Committee Charters
An increasing number of boards are moving away from having a standing committee on strategic planning. They reason that the entire board should understand and have a role in major decisions about the organization’s strategic direction, programs and services.
Board's Role in the Strategic Planning Process
Checklists
This checklist poses questions about whether your board is following recommended practices for strategic planning.
Sample Statement of the Roles and Responsibilities of the Board
Board and Committee Charters
Purpose: To ensure that members of the board have a common understanding of the role of governance, the board has adopted this Statement of the Roles and Responsibilities of the Board.
New Board Member Orientation Manual
Checklists
A Board Orientation Manual reinforces information provided during orientation seminars. Consider these items in custom-designing an orientation manual for your board.
Creating the Right Boardroom Conversations
Checklists
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.
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...
Position Description for a Health System or Hospital Board Member
Position Descriptions
A duty of obedience to the charitable purpose of the organization, a duty that should be demonstrable in all the board’s decisions.
A duty of loyalty, to act based on best interests of the organization and the wider community it serves, not the narrow interests of an individual or stakeholder group. A duty of care, to be diligent in carrying out the work of the board by preparing for meetings, attending faithfully, participating in discussions, asking questions, making sound and independent business judgments, and seeking independent opinions when necessary.
Board Self Evaluation
Evaluations and Assessments
Regular board self-evaluation is integral to effective governance. Use the questions in the attachment to assess whether your board is getting maximum mileage from its self-evaluation process.