Experience has taught me that a retreat involving your school board and senior administrators can be a powerful tool for building your board’s...
The Retreat as a Board Capacity Building Vehicle
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Board Capacity Building
Board Standing Committees Supercharge Virginia Beach City Schools Governance
The following post - one of our all-time most popular - features the experience of the Virginia Beach City Schools in employing well-designed Board...
Well-Designed Retreats Can Be Powerful Governing Vehicles
Retreats have become a popular vehicle for involving nonprofit board members, their CEOs, and executives in accomplishing high-impact governing work...
Don’t Unwittingly Invite Board Micromanagement!
A superintendent called me recently, asking if I’d be interested in presenting a governance training workshop for her school board. She explained...
Creating Board Development Champions
You might recall that a year or so ago, we posted two articles on the subject of board capacity building – what is popularly known as board...
Turning Board Members Into Board Development Champions
You might recall that a year or so ago, we posted two articles on the subject of board capacity building – what is popularly known as board...
Creating Board Development Champions
My February 25 post described two vehicles for developing your board’s governing capacity that we discussed in my pre-conference workshop at AASA’s...
Really Board-Savvy CEOs Know Enough To Avoid Recruiting Letterhead Board Members
Several posts at this blog have described what I call “insidious foes” of a solid board-CEO working relationship. These are erroneous assumptions...
Leaving Administrators Out of the Governance Improvement Loop a Costly Mistake
Mea Culpa! One of the more egregious errors I made early in my career as a K-12 governance consultant and coach was allowing myself to be pressured...
Two Lynchpins of a High-Performing Board Committee Structure
While preparing for a four-hour Zoom work session recently with the chief executive and executive team of a nonprofit economic development...