Professional Development is for Staff, Not Boards.
Professional Development is for Staff, Not Boards. NOT! Imagine you have an ailment that takes you to the doctor. On the wall is her diploma from 20 years ago. “Ah!” you think. “She has a lot of experience. Hmm, I wonder if she’s kept up with the latest thinking in...
Are your collaborations spinning wheels?
Do you know why collaborations fail? There are two questions to ask to reduce risk of failure.
Throw Out Your Board Matrix
Are you using an outdated board matrix? Throw it out. What skills do you REALLY need on your board?
Dangerous Assumptions: Knowing “Where they’re coming from” isn’t enough!
You need more than empathy to make your case. Many people tell you that successful persuasion is built on understanding the other person’s values and frame of reference. What they don’t tell you is that you also have to know what they know. No Jargon We usually know...
How to keep simmering issues from derailing your team
Do simmering issues on your team prevent smooth group efforts? Maybe there’s past ‘bad blood,’ or one party imputes negative motives to the other. Perhaps a dominant personality habitually runs roughshod over the ideas of the other, or two team members have become...
Is Board Recruitment the Key to Your Vision?
credit: John Quidor In Washington Irving's story of Rip Van Winkle, old Rip goes off hunting to the mountains, encounters supernatural beings, drinks of their keg of brew, and falls asleep. Upon awakening, he returns home, only to find that 20 years have passed and...
Just Say No…..3 Keys to Staying Focused
Focus “means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are…innovation is saying no to 1000 things.” We naturally want to help the world; we naturally want to do everything that will contribute to our mission. But we can’t. At least not all at once.
You are Hereby Invited to a Boring Job
“A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.” Fred Allen “A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.” Milton Berle Then there’s this rubber stamp I was given,...
Rant, Vent, Resent or Remind? Two questions to set the stage for your board’s success.
Stop resenting board members who don’t follow through. Here are two questions that can help set the stage for their success.
Stop the Blame! Six questions to get to continuous improvement.
“It is crucial….to identify aspects of the process that worked well and why, and changes to the process that will improve success in the future.”* If you do 10 things in a day, and 9 of them go fabulously, which one do you focus on? Right. The one thing that was a...
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