Blog Entries - 2017

Tip #20 Identify Your Organization's Key Stakeholders/Owners

May 1, 2017  |  tips for effective boards

In our last Tip for Effective Boards, we defined key stakeholders or owners as those people on whose behalf the board governs and to whom it is accountable, those key people who provide legitimacy to a board’s

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Tip #19 Identify and Communicate with your Organization's Key Stakeholders

April 1, 2017  |  tips for effective boards

A critical job of a board of directors is to identify and communicate with those key people on whose behalf the board governs and to whom it is accountable. Policy Governance® refers to those key people as

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Tip #18 Sharpen Your Board Focus with the Three V's

March 1, 2017  |  tips for effective boards

Does your board spend most of its meeting time and energy on the really important governance issues?  Unfortunately, many board members are unable to answer this question in the affirmative.  Recently I read

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Tip #17 Three Tips for Efficiently Managing Board Meeting Time

February 1, 2017  |  tips for effective boards

Board members’ time is valuable and available board meeting time very limited.  Hence, it’s critically important to manage board meeting time as efficiently as possible. For this purpose, I would like

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Tip #16 Should the Board Trust the CEO

January 1, 2017  |  tips for effective boards

The simple answer:  Trust the CEO?  - Yes, ideally when you can, but verify regardless of trust. Yes, of course, trust can be quite valuable.  Trust grows as people share the “good” as well

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