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Board Assessments with Sample Management Questions
With the pandemic enduring and uncertainty on the horizon, now is an excellent time to reassess your board’s performance. A check-up now can ensure that you are not just surviving, but thriving. To test your boards critical performance or to put …
In the Boardroom: Asked to Join that Board?
Asked to join that board? Here’s what to look for before you sign on the dotted line Most board recruitment is relationship-based. Often a friend or colleague, already serving on a board, will recruit you to join their Community Benefit Organiza …
The Very Good but Seriously Flawed Executive Director
No executive director has all gifts, and many are brilliant. But what about the nonprofit CEO who is terrific in some ways but whose strengths are matched with some troubling flaws as well? It’s uncomfortable to be a board member when you have s …
Evaluating the Executive Director
Are you sighing just from having read the title of this article? Why does this topic make us all feel so tired? Virtually everyone agrees that boards should conduct performance reviews of executive directors (EDs or CEOs). Even so, the predominant prac …
Four Ways to Remove a Board Member
How to remove a board member that consistently disrupts meetings or is otherwise destructive and demoralizing.
Ask Rita: Emma’s Disability is Hurting Performance: Can We Fire Her?
Consult a labor law professional to check federal and state laws before firing an employee for excessive absences or with a known disability.
A Board Member “Contract”
One way to be sure that each person on the board is clear on his or her responsibilities is to adopt a board member contract.
A Board Leads an Organization Out of the Ashes
A board chair shares how their organization found itself on the precipice of bankruptcy and then was able to walk away.
A 360-Degree Look at the Organization: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us
The 360-Degree Look helps compensate for the board’s limited view of how well the organization is functioning by seeking other viewpoints.
The Board Builds Its Sense of Self: Body-Building for Boards
Perhaps the single most important attribute of an effective board is also its most intangible: An independent sense of itself.
