Posts Tagged ‘board strategy’
Facilitating Strategic Planning for Social Impact
. Over the last few months, I have posted a series of articles on strategic planning for nonprofit and social sector agencies. Not surprising, a number of potential client calls are from folks looking for facilitation and process support for strategic planning. Indeed in this anemic economy, many nonprofit agencies find ...Read More
Facilitating Beyond the Crisis in Thinking
. Typically, my posts try to capture original thoughts related to facilitation and process. This week, however, has been one of rich discovery and learning from the words of others. In this post, I am lacing together the knowledge of others in a synthesis of ideas to reinforce my practice foundation ...Read More
Facilitating a High Performing Board
. Recently, I have been working on several different projects that involve nonprofit board development issues ranging from staffing a board, to recruiting board members, and improving the effectiveness of boards. My recent work has led me to filter my experience through a review of the literature on the characteristics of ...Read More
Facilitating Conversations on Collaboration
. In my last post I asserted that the nonprofit organizations of tomorrow are being born out of the economic crisis of today. In this current economic turmoil, there are many voices counseling the nonprofit world to increase “collaboration.” Unfortunately, many of these experts are using “collaboration” as euphemism for “merger ...Read More
Facilitating a Nonprofit Board Orientation
. I recently helped out on a board member orientation workshop for a nonprofit agency and thought I would share some perspectives on nonprofit board development while the ideas are fairly fresh on my mind. Over the last few months I have been occasionally posting what has become an informal series ...Read More
Planning Effective Board Retreats
. I once was talking with an executive director of a nonprofit agency that hosted an annual board retreat. She sounded exasperated as she described the situation this way, “Every fall the board has the same discussion, asking --so what do we do at our board retreat this year?” As ...Read More
Four Board Membership Conversations
. I have outlined board frameworks elsewhere and this blog is a more practical companion. . While there are literally dozens of books, websites and blogs devoted solely to the topic of nonprofit boards it is still a common phenomenon for nonprofits to struggle to identify the strategic composition and functioning ...Read More
Board Development Strategy
. One of the common challenges that face many nonprofit agencies is creating a board that helps the organization grow and thrive. On the surface, the primary responsibilities of a nonprofit board are to provide oversight and governance to the agency. Generally agreed upon, governance includes: 1) planning and ...Read More