Blog Categories
Board Capacity Building
- Strengthening board composition (indirectly, by influencing appointments and encouraging interest)
- Strengthening board members’ governing knowledge and skills
- Updating/refining board structure (committees; board meeting format and schedule)
- Processes to engage board members actively in key governing areas – e.g., strategic and operational planning/budgeting; performance monitoring – and in important non-governing volunteer work – e.g., image building; external/stakeholder relations
Board-CEO Involvement in External Relations/Resource Development
- Image update/branding
- External communication/advocacy
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Financial resource development (especially local tax support)
Board-CEO Involvement in Innovation/Change Management
- Values/vision/mission updates
- Strategic issues
- Change initiatives
- Change implementation
Board-CEO Relationship
- Role differentiation
- Communication/interaction guidelines
- Relationship management techniques
- Board chair-CEO relationship
- Board evaluation of CEO performance
Board-Savvy CEOs
- Attitude
- Knowledge/traits/skills
- Roles: in board development; design of board engagement processes that foster board members’ ownership; board-CEO relationship building and relationship management
- Providing board members with ego satisfaction
CEO Professional Growth
- Self-knowledge and awareness
- Knowledge acquisition (books; mentors; experience)
- Career planning
- Learning from failure
- Spiritual dimension of growth (dealing with fear)
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