“The Superintendent as Board-Developer-in-Chief” was one of the five presentation/discussion modules in the pre-conference workshop I presented on...
2 Powerful Board Development Vehicles: a Hot Topic at my 2022 NCE Workshop
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Month: February 2022
Board Chair Development Is a Fine Art at Tupelo’s Community Development Foundation
The landscape of nonprofit/public governance has changed dramatically in recent years. In my travels around the country these days, I’m...
Beating the Odds: Transforming the Culture of the Ithaca City School District
Kudos to the Board, Superintendent and Cabinet of New York’s Ithaca City School District for beating the odds...
Blazing a Trail on the Board Engagement Front in Colorado’s Thompson School District
As my recent video interview with Board President Barbara Kruse and Superintendent Marc Schaffer indicates,...
Making the Annual Budget Preparation Process an Innovation Engine
I’ve never come across a CEO who wasn’t pretty much an expert in the art of annual budget preparation by the time she first takes the helm of an...
Transforming Annual Budget Preparation Into a Higher-Impact Leadership Tool
I’ve never come across a superintendent who wasn’t pretty much an expert in the art of annual budget preparation by the time she first takes the...
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...
The Compelling Case for a Strong Board External/Stakeholder Relations Committee
“Incredible. We must be talking about 40 or more stakeholders.” This was one of the responses to the question I asked in the daylong governance...