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)