Tip #104 Plan for Board Team Effectiveness
With this Tip for Effective Boards, we continue our re-presentation of the ten most popular Tips out of our first 100 Tips for Effective Boards. The following which was Tip 45 is our eighth most popular Tip. I have made
Tip #103 Should Boards Follow Robert's Rules of Order?
With this Tip for Effective Boards, we continue our re-presentation of the ten most popular Tips out of our first 100 Tips for Effective Boards. The following which was Tip 94 is our ninth most popular Tip. I have made
Tip #102 How Can Boards Assess Their Own Performance?
With this Tip for Effective Boards we begin our re-presentation of the ten most popular Tips out of our first 100 Tips for Effective Boards. The following which was Tip 95 is our tenth most popular Tip. I have made
Tip #101 Ten Most Popular Tips for Effective Boards
Over the next several months I’d like to re-present the ten most popular Tips for Effective Boards out of the first 100 Tips that I have written and distributed over the last several years. The popularity of each of
Tip #100 Should Your Board Consider Adopting the Policy Governance Model of Board Operations?
In writing these Tips for Effective Boards, I have tried to make them relevant to all boards whether they practice the Policy Governance model or not. However, I’m sure that regular readers of these Tips are aware
Tip #98 How Can Boards Use Executive Sessions Effectively and Appropriately?
First of all, what exactly do we mean by executive sessions? Executive sessions (referred to as in camera sessions in Canada) are special sessions of the board from which non-board members are generally excluded.
Tip #97 What Information Should a Board Focus On?
Before turning to some guidelines, it may be helpful to review the different kinds of information that a Board may focus on. Policy Governance®, I believe, may have a helpful categorization of such information. The
Tip #96 How Can the Performance of Individual Board Members Be Assessed?
Some ideas for assessing the performance of individual board members follow: Each board member completes an annual self-evaluation of their performance that includes educational needs and shares this with the board