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Successful Strategic Planning: The Board Role

Trustee Articles
This monograph covers the basics of strategic planning, including definitions of common terms, a description of the planning process and the characteristics of successful plans. It describes the board’s role in planning, including why plans fail, common weaknesses and how boards can support successful plan implementation.

Planning for the Day after Tomorrow

Board-led strategic planning provides an organizational roadmap.

Demystifying and Optimizing the Executive Session

The executive session provides an important venue for maintaining board independence and protecting confidentiality as the governing body carries out its fiduciary duties.

Why Hospitals Should Launch a Fundraising Campaign Now

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The Foundation Board Planning Journey

Trustee Articles
As the foundation board considers the creation of a strategic plan to guide the health care foundation, there are several priorities and moving pieces to consider across the strategic planning journey.

Podcasts

Trustee podcasts from the AHA.

Capital Project Success Depends on Strong Board Oversight

Trustee Articles
In 2003, Princeton HealthCare System initiated a highly participative and comprehensive long-range strategic planning process. Among the participants were trustees, donors, physicians, elected officials, influential community members, and patients and their families, as well as administrators and clinical and service staff members. 

Understanding the Physician-Hospital Relationship

What boards should know about building relationships between valued physicians and hospitals and health systems.

Evidence-Based Approaches Make Succession Planning More Intentional and Effective

Proper hiring of people at all levels needs to be done with a focus on succession planning. Hiring should not be done in a vacuum and must weigh the short- and long-term departmental and broader organizational needs. Leaders need to surround themselves with others whose skills complement their own.

CEO Succession Planning - Your Must Dos

On-Demand Educational Webinars
This webinar examines the best practices of CEO succession planning in a health care setting. Bill Westwood, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry presents a thorough description of the process to follow to ensure that succession planning is smooth, efficient and objective. He offers specific recommendations for the roles that each party plays in the process, and what risks should be avoided. Board members, incumbent CEO's and potential CEO's will learn how to prepare for and execute succession planning in their organizations.