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
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  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