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Board members are talented, experienced, and knowledgeable leaders. They know how to be effective. They achieve success by taking on one issue and focusing on it until it is resolved. Many nonprofit boards try to do too much. Their agendas are cluttered with marketing decisions, programing needs, financial decisions, fundraising challenges plus the usual […]  It is rewarding and difficult to serve on a nonprofit board. Knowing you are part of a process that changes people’s lives and makes the community stronger is rewarding. Making good decisions is one of the more difficult parts. […] Every nonprofit board would like to think it is deliberative. Here is a test you can use to see how your board measures up. […] The key to increasing effectiveness is to change the board’s focus. […] A common lament of nonprofit boards is that there is never enough time to talk about strategy, discuss trends, set goals, or plan. However, highly effective boards find time to talk about those very issues. How do they do that? […] We all know the quality of an agenda influences the quality of any meeting. Did you know that the way the meeting ends affects the way the next nonprofit board meeting starts? […] Board engagement is a problem for many nonprofits. Sometimes it is the way the topics are presented to the board that creates the engagement problem. […] A common frustration for board chairs and nonprofit executives is indifferent boards or more accurately, what appear to be indifferent boards. […] Nonprofits boards typically have lengthy agendas. Is the executive’s report a valuable use of the board’s precious time? […] Every nonprofit board has the option to be a source of stress or stress relief for the executive. […] |
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