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Board Composition and Selection, Board Orientation
Board Orientation Best Practices: Strategies for Onboarding New Trustees Effectively
Action steps that can help your organization develop a conscious, ongoing orientation process
Board Evaluation
Doing Board Self-Assessments That Actually Matter
While most organizations conduct annual board self-assessments, it seems that few boards actually use the results of those assessments to develop specific plans for improvement. According to PriceWaterhouseCooper’s 2017 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, board members’ dissatisfaction with their fellow trustees has reached an all-time high.
Governance Effectiveness
New board members: Orientation 101
Few things are more satisfying to new board members than the realization that they have not only made a smart decision to join a board but that they can immediately begin to make meaningful contributions. And nothing fosters that certainty more than a dynamic, interactive board orientation.
Orientation should be thought of as a process rather than a one-day meeting — and it should be structured to promote self-guided discovery by board members. This can be done in an intentional, manageable and powerful way by following a few key practices:
Board Composition and Selection, Board Orientation
Board Orientation 101
New board members need more than a briefing on their organization — and the role they play in it