Leading Together Working for and With Your Board of Trustees

Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees

Instructor: Anne W. Ackerson
Course Date: October 4, 2021
Cost: $400
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As your organization's staff leader, you lead and manage staff, and often volunteers – that's a given. But you also play a critical role in leading, managing, and facilitating the work of your governing board.

Is your relationship with your board collaborative, contentious, or non-existent? Does your board drift between non-management and micromanagement? Do you mentally or emotionally check out of the relationship due to lack of time or commitment?

 

  • Course Goals
    This course provides participants with best practice resources and strategies to help you define, refine, and realign your working relationships with your boards of trustees.

    This 4-week course will cover:
    Board-Staff leader roles, responsibilities, and models
  • Energizing the board recruitment and development cycle; leadership succession
  • Assessing and strengthening the board-staff relationship
  • Putting strategic and integrative thinking to work at board and committee meetings
  • Identifying some of the root causes of bad board behavior and how to remedy it
  • Strategies for encouraging empathy and openness to learning

  • You can expect:
    Weekly readings drawn from a variety of timely and thought-provoking sources
  • Weekly written assignments to help you work through your challenges and develop your skills
  • A discussion forum and Zoom chats to encourage engagement with course concepts and with class members

 

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Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees addresses the AASLH StEPs Standards: MVG (Mission, Vision, Governance)


Comments from participants:

I thought the resources were fabulous.


I liked the fact that we were required to write the essay every week because it forces you to think it through.

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