Tag: nonprofit board development
Overcoming the Inevitable Resistance to Change: the IEDC Story
“But we’ve always put our annual budget together in the board’s finance committee, and it’s worked well. Why in heaven’s name would we want to fold budgeting into the strategic and operational planning committee you’ve recommended?” This was only one …
Creating Board Development Champions
It’s a fact of nonprofit organizational life that many, if not most, board members are not passionately committed to developing the capacity of their board to govern. In my experience, sad to say, many are not even particularly interested in …
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 1
Teamwork in the abstract is neither here nor there for nonprofit and public boards. The only serious reason for developing your board’s teamwork is to help it function as a more effective governing body that gets its governing work done …
Questions to Anticipate From Prospective Board Members
Veronica Dagher’s article in the December 11 issue of the Wall Street Journal, “What to Consider Before Joining a Nonprofit Board,” is useful reading for board-savvy CEOs who are interested in strengthening their boards’ composition. Dagher discusses five questions …
Kick Off 2017 By Updating Your CEO Governance Strategy
Preparing for a recent CEO coaching session, I fine-tuned the process that I’d developed several years ago for updating the CEO’s Governance Strategy. All really board-savvy CEOs know that governance (encompassing the work of the board and the board-CEO partnership) …
Association Forum CEO Michelle Mason on Developing Her Board’s Composition
Extraordinary nonprofit chief executives are extraordinarily board-savvy, meaning that among other things they take accountability for playing the leading role in building their boards’ governing capacity. As extremely busy volunteers, board members can’t realistically be expected to take the lead …
What, Me Worry About a Big Board?
“Why in heaven’s name would I even consider it?” This how my colleague Jeff Finkle, President & CEO of the International Economic Development Council, responded over dinner a few weeks ago when I asked him whether he’d ever thought about …
Fear: the Insidious Foe of Positive Organizational Change
My most recent article at this blog, “Board Composition as a Conscious Growth Tool,” shared some really good news. The governance committee of a prestigious aging services nonprofit used the process of filling board vacancies to turn the 25-member board …
The Powerful Case For a Diverse Board
At the recent chief executive workshops I presented for the Florida and Virginia Societies of Association Executives, a very familiar question came up not long after we’d gotten underway, as it has in virtually every one of my workshops over …
Virginia Jacko: CEO Extraordinaire
This inaugural post features a truly extraordinary CEO, Virginia Jacko, who became president & CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 2005. Not only was Virginia the first blind CEO of the Lighthouse in its …
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