Board Meetings
Future-ready Boards: Transforming practices for mission-critical success
A four-part executive session meeting model can lead to effective governance.
In today’s environment it is particularly important for boards to take the time to discuss difficult issues, challenge assumptions and refuse to rely on groupthink when confronting strategic opportunities, financial challenges and quality oversight. To do this effectively, trust, candor, differing…
The executive session provides an important venue for maintaining board independence and protecting confidentiality as the governing body carries out its fiduciary duties.
High performing boards learn how to make decisions at the right time using the right processes.
Staying forward-focused as a trustee requires a combination of time management, prioritization and preventive efforts.
Webinar: The first thing any effective board or leadership group does is decide how it will make decisions. Further, effective boards develop different, clearly defined processes to make decisions of different magnitudes. Yet, many boards have never had an explicit conversation about or developed…
As a board leader, you can help position your organization to recapture that original enthusiasm and to strengthen the personal connection with members. It starts by taking a hard look at the content and structure of meetings.
See attached sample foundation board master calendar from Accordant Philanthropy for June 30, 2017, Fiscal Year.
See sample foundation board agenda from Accordant Philanthropy.