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Boredom In The Board Room?
You joined the board because you believe in the organization’s mission. Perhaps it is a not-for-profit whose mission is to ensure intellectually disabled people in your community have the resources they need to succeed at each stage in life. Perhaps it is your church...
Is Policy Governance® Too Big for Us?
I’ve heard boards say: The Carver Policy Governance model might be great for large organizations, but it’s too complicated for ours. If you are one of those smaller charities or churches where the challenge of monitoring reports, developing reasonable interpretations...
Travelling by Coach
Jannice Moore, our company founder, named our firm The Governance Coach™. While coaching is just one of our services, we emphasize it in the name because we’ve found coaching to be the most effective way to help boards realize and sustain a culture of governance...
How to End up as Front Page News!
I have yet to encounter a board that doesn’t want to be proud of its organization’s achievements. A board might even hope to be front page news for something brilliant the organization does. I recently read about an organization which had just received a significant...
You Can’t Bring That in Here!
You’ve heard all those horror stories about crossing the border between two countries, how difficult the immigration and customs process can be? Have you watched the National Geographic Channels show, Border Security? Well, I’ve had a few troubles at border crossings,...
Is Your Board on ‘Cruise Control’?
A number of years ago, a family member was in the hospital, and I set out in my car to visit her. But I was preoccupied with a work-related matter, and before I realized it, I arrived, not at the hospital, but at the office! My reflex brain had put me into auto-pilot...