Are you looking to fill some vacancies on your non-profit board positions. Are you worried that half of the board seats will be vacant when the terms of current board members end? Guidestar, a non-profit organization reporting service, polled their members in 2006 to find the best ways to find board members for non-profit organizations. The…
As the date for the board meeting approaches and the “to do” list grows by the minute, it’s easy to get caught in a panic. Just when you thought you had things under control, you find that one committee has not turned in its report, the location for the meeting needs to be changed, and…
Having term limits is a good way to ensure that a board is actively working on recruitment and succession planning on a continual basis. Boards with and without term limits find that board turnover is a little like the changing of the guard. It’s a regular event. It’s inevitable. It can be somewhat entertaining and…
Have you ever wanted to add an important topic to the agenda that you just knew was going to generate a robust discussion? Maybe your hopes were dashed when you saw that there were already more items on the agenda that there would be time to discuss during the meeting. That may not be such…
According to Team Technology, the terms groups and teams are often used interchangeably, although there is a distinct difference between them. Groups draw their members from a social community, whereas teams come together with commonality as a shared goal. In defining those terms separately, boards of directors are defined as being a team. The success…
In July of 2016, thirteen of the top corporate CEO’s issued an open letter to the public entitled Commonsense Corporate Governance Principles. Despite the diversity of the group and varied opinions on specific principles of corporate governance, the group felt it was important to find some common ground at the highest level of corporate structure. Commonsense Corporate Governance…
Imagine that a board member is doing research about improving his or her participation on a board of directors. As part of that research, the member discovers some valuable articles about board self-assessment and becomes intrigued about using self-assessment tools to improve the performance of the board as a whole. With great excitement, the member…
When a board member accepts a new position on a board, it’s rare that the board member knows exactly what to do and how to do it. Active board members will get up to speed quickly on their own, but there’s no question that a strong orientation primes new board members for their duties. Regular…
Only about half of boards use a formal, written self-assessment tool to evaluate their board’s effectiveness. That number is surprisingly low considering that doing self-assessments can be the catalyst that takes a board from stagnant and boring to vibrant and thriving. Non-profit organizations may think they don’t need to perform evaluations on the board or…
On the surface, it may seem that board members don’t need any training. After all, they were likely recruited to join the board because of their knowledge and expertise of the organization and its business. Yet, no one can know everything that there is to know about a business or organization, especially in the fast…
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