Executive Director/Board Chair Collaboration

Executive Director/Board Chair Collaboration

The key to a successful board of directors is healthy collaboration between the board chair and the organization’s executive director. It sets the tone for how the board and staff work together by empowering the board to focus on governance while staff concentrate on...

Board/Staff Decision-Making Matrix

This decision matrix tool is designed to help clarify and delineate the roles and responsibilities between a nonprofit board of directors and the executive director or staff. By identifying who is responsible, accountable, consulted, or informed in key organizational...
Addressing Uncertainty #3: Busting Our Assumptions

Addressing Uncertainty #3: Busting Our Assumptions

(Go here to read the previous post in this series) Most of us have heard the old adage—sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde, but definitely uttered by Felix Unger in the in the 1970s television version of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple—“When you assume, you make an ‘ass’...