Posts Tagged ‘Board of Directors’

How do you assure that your board is fulfilling its legal and operational responsibilities while at the same time keeping your board meetings interesting?
Conducting interesting board meetings is a must if you are going to attract and maintain top-level leadership for your agency. I have written that Board meetings must include at least three [...]

Let’s spend a little time talking about how the Board gets it’s work done. I have written in past blogs about Boards and that Board meetings should be all about education and inspiration, strategic thinking and making policy decisions. So where does the work get done if not at the Board meetings? In committees, task [...]

Thinking about holding a Board Retreat? I don’t really think we retreat at these events, as we plan for the future? We should call it a Board Advance. But I’ll stick to the old name, for familiarity’s sake.
What constitutes a successful Retreat? From being involved with over 100 Retreats, here is what board members [...]

While we are going through these difficult times, we need to do a critical self-analysis of our human resources. The days of easy foundation money is gone, at least for a while. We must rely more and more on the generosity of individuals. Are you kidding-with so many people out of work and investment [...]

The meeting just ended with people laughing and hugging each other.  We had completed a very successful meeting.  This mood was dramatically different than just a month ago.  Then, the agency was struggling with a serious cash flow problem, unable to pay all its bills, with a small and frustrated Board of Directors. Now there [...]

So many times I hear staff and board members complaining that they can’t get volunteers to do what they promised to do.
 I believe there are several reasons why we are often disappointed when commitments made are not commitments kept.  Three critical factors can keep volunteers motivated and assure that decisions that are made are carried [...]