Doing good even better begins with people
Organizational greatness begins with people
Growing great directors
Helping directors become great leaders
Making room for greatness
Discussion questions
Helping directors understand their governance role
Distinguishing governance from management
Defining the purpose
Planning to fulfill the purpose
Delegating responsibility for plan implementation
Resourcing the plan
Monitoring and evaluating
Reporting back to the members
Helping boards have better meetings
Meetings: why have them?
A strategic agenda
Planning effective meetings
Whose rules of order?
Bad habits great boards overcome
The role of the chair
The role of recording
Great boards have a good fight (occasionally)
Discussion questions
Great boards evaluate performance
Great boards evaluate themselves
Great boards evaluate program
Great boards evaluate their CEO
Discussion questions
More tools to increase board effectiveness
Governing through policies
Buoys to guide management
The board role in fund-raising
Budget: a necessary management tool
Caution about committees
Committees-getting more with less
Managing conflict constructively
Working your way through a crisis
Smelling salts for discouraged organizations
Under the shadow of litigation
Great board celebrate
Leaving right
Afterword
Exhibits:
A. Board self-evaluation: board responsibilities-the full scope
B. Board self-evaluation: board duties-how well are we accomplishing them?
C. Board self-evaluation: board meetings-our work together
D. Director self-evaluation
E. Suggestions for committees
F. Writing effective proposals for board action
G. CEO annual review outline
H. CEO search checklist
Suggestions for interviewing a candidate for the CEO position
J. Governance guidelines (a model for a start-up).