Blog Entries - tips for effective boards

Tip #45 Plan for Board Team Effectiveness: The Third "P" for Building Your Board Team

June 1, 2019  |  tips for effective boards

We have identified 4 P’s for Building Your Board Team:  Purpose, People, Plan and Process.  After covering the first 2 P’s in our last two Tips for Effective Boards, we now turn to the third

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Tip #44 Focus on People (Your Board Team Members): The Second "P" for Building Your Board Team

May 1, 2019  |  tips for effective boards

We have identified 4 P’s for Building Your Board Team:  Purpose, People, Plan and Process.  In our last Tip for Effective Boards we focused on the first P:  Be Driven by Purpose.  In this Tip

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Tip #43 Be Driven by Purpose: The First "P" for Building Your Board Team

April 1, 2019  |  tips for effective boards

In our last Tip for Effective Boards, we identified 4 P’s for Building Your Board Team:  Purpose, People, Plan and Process. The first of the 4 P’s, Be Driven by Purpose, involves the following: Be

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Tip #42 What Are the 4 P's for Building Your Board Team?

March 1, 2019  |  tips for effective boards

The 4 P’s for building your board team are:  Purpose, People, Plan, and Process. Purpose:  Be clear about and driven by purpose.  Set your organization’s purpose.  Identify what benefits

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Tip #41 Deal Effectively with Troublesome Board Member Behavior

February 1, 2019  |  tips for effective boards

In the last Tip for Effective Boards we identified some common types of troublesome board member behaviors and provided some suggestions for preventing these behaviors from occurring.  In this Tip for Effective

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Tip #40 Address Troublesome Board Member Behaviors

January 1, 2019  |  tips for effective boards

Obviously, the best way to address troublesome board member behaviors is to prevent these behaviors from occurring in the first place.  In this email message we will first identify some common troublesome board

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Tip #39 Establish Ground Rules for Effective Board Meetings

December 1, 2018  |  tips for effective boards

Board meetings run more smoothly and produce better decisions when board members are clear about board meeting expectations and are committed to complying with these expectations.  Clear shared expectations prompt

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Tip # 38 What Characteristics to Look for When Recruiting Board Members

November 1, 2018  |  tips for effective boards

John Carver, the developer of the Policy Governance® model, recommends that boards strive to recruit board members with the following characteristics:  “Are visionary, able to create alternate

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