Board Meetings
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.
St. Charles Health System’s embrace of Lean practices led to a new culture and revitalized governance model
Seven techniques can help support and strengthen your board's decision-making processes.
To maintain the momentum of continuous governance improvement, many "best practices" boards institute regular mini-evaluations of board meetings. Here, each board meeting concludes with every board member anonymously completing a brief evaluation form of how the board planned for and used its time…
Effective decision making often requires different techniques or approaches for different types of decisions. The following techniques and practices can help support and strengthen your board’s decision-making processes.
Here are 10 steps for optimizing the way a board uses its meeting time.
Board chairs are often chosen based on peer respect, professional knowledge, demonstrated commitment such as chairing a board committee, and willingness to put in the time required. A somewhat surprising finding to emerge from the AHA’s 2011 Governance Survey is that conflict management is an…
To expedite the conduct of routine business during board meetings in order to allocate more meeting time to education and discussion of substantive issues.