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Co-creating strategy
Let’s face it, designing a strategy is challenging in the best of times. Add to this the uncertainty of the health reform landscape, and strategy design seems almost impossible.
Taking the leap into coverage
Trustee talking points
Provider-owned health plans are becoming more common as hospitals and health systems look for ways to manage value-based payment and assume risk.
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Rocking the boat can be the best course for hospital boards
Many board members at local, independent hospitals have expertise in a wide range of industries, but they often do not have specialist skills in governing hospitals in today’
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.
Clarifying Expectations: A First Step in Developing Truly Effective Relationships Between CEOs and Trustees
Trustee Articles
This is the second in a series of collaborative leadership tools for CEOs. The first one presented a new model of collaborative leadership.This one focuses on clarifying trustees’ and CEOs’ expectations of each other. It
includes a simple exercise for helping trustees and CEOs refine the way they work together.
How and Why to Increase Board Diversity
Board diversity has lagged behind the growth of increasingly diverse communities. This article looks at the advantage of having a diverse board and how to begin having discussions around building one and doing the work to create a diverse board.
Coaching for Results
When a sports team has an outstanding game, people often examine the coach’s role in setting expectations for performance and helping the team effectively coalesce to achieve its goal.
10 Myths of Executive Compensation
Hiring and retaining the right hospital leaders and ensuring that they achieve the organization’s goals are among the board’s most important functions, and executive compensation plays
Deliberate Decision-making and the Effective Board
Trustee Articles
High performing boards learn how to make decisions at the right time using the right processes.
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...