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Board chair coaching process

Discussion Questions & Templates
A good coach focuses on what the board chair wants to accomplish and designs a coaching process based on how the board chair experiences the role; on assessment of individual strengths and weaknesses; and on identifying and addressing blind spots. Each coaching process should be customized to meet the board chair’s individual needs and goals.

The Boards Role in Digital Transformation

Facilitating digital transformation demands that boards appreciate its urgency, move past the hype and fulfill strategy at their hospital and health system via digital transformation-related needs assessment, plan execution and evaluation of results and outcomes.

Governance in the Time of Coronavirus: What governing boards should do to respond to the pandemic

Podcasts
This podcast highlights issues such as: prospective board authorizations for emergency spending and policy modifications; logistics for emergency board meetings and decision making; how boards can support and equally importantly not be a burden to management; clarifying emergency authority between system and subsidiary boards; what boards and their members should NOT do; the need for deeper executive and board succession planning; and others.

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.

Innovation Resources for Boards

Innovation Resources for Boards

Role of the Chief Governance Officer

Trustee Articles
The recent economic crisis, coupled with weekly headlines about one company after another demonstrating poor corporate governance choices, led investors and corporate watchdogs to blame boards of directors for less than-expected company performance. These stakeholders argue that directors were asleep at the wheel and not paying close enough attention to their oversight responsibilities.

Diverse Board Members Offer Their Perspectives

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

Increasing a Board’s Strategic Competency

Health care boards that invest the time in discussing strategy can position their organization for success.

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.

Creating Age-Friendly Health Systems

Hospital and health system trustees can help move forward an evidence-based framework to achieve better health for an aging population with complex care needs.