Executive Director: Empowering Your Board
The relationship between the board and the executive director is critical to organizational success. Keeping your board focused on governance and out of operations is a key challenge that can strain this relationship. If you can effectively educate and engage your board members to set direction versus manage operations, you can lead your board to govern.
Suggested Participants
Executive directors/CEOs and Managers
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Educate the board on their governance role.
- Develop tactics to assist the board in setting direction vs. managing operations.
- Demonstrate seven daily tasks to effectively lead leaders.
Benefits
- Better relationships with your board members
- An educated board that focuses on their role and respects yours as executive director
Topics Covered
- Shared leadership
- Reciprocal support
- Modes of governing