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Board and Management Roles in Strategic Planning

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Most boards and governance experts say boards should be meaningfully involved in shaping and ultimately approving the strategic plan and major decisions—but if they try to develop plans, they’re bordering on management. The tricky part is distinguishing meaningful involvement from development.

Building a Resilient Health Care Workforce

Building a Resilient Health Care Workforce: Board leadership can shape strategy to transform workforce design
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Strategic Planning Podcasts

Pamela Knecht, president and CEO of Accord Limited, describes how to create and sustain a board with needed competencies, skills and perspectives.
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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.

Board Practices that Separate the Best from the Rest

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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.

Board Quality and Safety Committee Orientation: Sample Agenda

Samples Agendas
How well boards govern is influenced by a number of factors, among them, the knowledge and skills board members bring to their work.

Trustee Insights Archive Editions

Trustee Insights I Archive includes previous editions of the AHA’s enhanced digital resource for hospital and health system boards and leadership. This robust ­monthly digital package includes insights and analysis on the changing dynamics in the health care field and what they mean for boards, as well as other rich resources to help achieve high-performing governance.
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Key Action Steps for the Compensation Committee

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Discover the benefits of shared performance goals at the system level and how to implement them in your executive compensation program with AHA's tips.
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Board Policy Manuals

Board Policies
Board policies do various things. Some describe how important processes, such as board self evaluation and CEO evaluation, are carried out. Other policies address standards of conduct such as a conflict of interest policy. Still others clarify delegations of authority such as the levels of authority granted to subsidiary boards, board committees and the CEO.

Board Competence Framework: Know Your Strengths

Although various studies show that boards with a more diverse membership offer a greater array of unique solutions and strategies, and typically outpace those with a less diverse body in regard to organizational growth, profitability and sustainability, reports continue to highlight that hospital boards are slow in meeting their diversity goals.