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How strategic insight, humility and diverse perspectives define the next generation of board leadership

How strategic onboarding and continuous learning drive stronger hospital board performance

BOARD COMPOSITION AND SELECTIONSuccession Planning: A Call for Change in Board Recruitment and Leadership DevelopmentRethinking Board RecruitmentBy Karma Bass and Maria HernandezThe health care industry is navigating unprec

Use this self-assessment to evaluate your board’s readiness to recruit and develop the next generation of board members and leadership.

Interview participants from left to right: Ann Collins, M.D., Melissa Fitzpatrick, MSN, and Kimberly Cleveland, Ph.D.Board Composition and SelectionWhat Nurses Bring to Hospital and Health System Boards

Future-ready Boards: Transforming practices for mission-critical success

Why health care boards need bold leadership in a time of rapid transformation

Jamie Orlikoff, national adviser on governance to the AHA, helps demystify the types of boards and their differences

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.

Success comes from defining expectations for various stakeholders

Unlock better governance practices with our delegation of authority matrix template, ensuring clarity and accountability across your organization.

An emerging group of future health care leaders are ready to take on the challenge of health care board service.

Ongoing board education that includes newer modalities and technologies will increase board engagement and improve governance.

Is granting an outgoing trustee ‘emeritus status’ a thing of the past?

This series of brief videos and accompanying board discussion questions features prominent health care governance experts offering advice on key issues that boards need to address in this rapidly changing health care environment.

This webinar recording offers a different approach to new member orientation. You’ll hear about a set of action steps that can help your organization develop a conscious, ongoing orientation process – one that helps the entire board form a high-functioning team much faster as each new trustee comes on.

Because of this generation’s size and increasing influence, Millennials are being surveyed and studied to better understand what makes them tick and how they may play a role in fundamentally reshaping how we live, work—and govern—our organizations.

New board members need more than a briefing on their organization — and the role they play in it

As health care organizations become more complex and diverse, their governance requires individuals with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address the needs and challenges of these evolving enterprises. As their organizations mature, effective boards update how their members are selected, often moving away from informal, relationship based board composition to a more intentional, competency-based process.

Complex and diverse health care orgs require boards with a range of knowledge, skills and behaviors that can address their needs and challenges.