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Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Committees or No Committees
To have board committees or not to have board committees? That is the question. Three Policy Governance consultants talk about the pros and cons in this quick panel discussion. https://youtu.be/m9MsOPlnAeY
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Risk
Welcome to Week 4 of our mini series. Today our panel discusses how Policy Governance addresses risk management. Does your board have a system in place to address the known and the unknown? https://youtu.be/e63H7JZhvQA
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Accountability at All Levels
Here’s the third of our mini videos: Accountability at All Levels, with Policy Governance consultants, Richard Stringham, Jannice Moore and Rose Mercier in a panel discussion. https://youtu.be/LwPCQwyytDw
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Board and CEO Relationship
The second in our fall series of mini videos for boards. If you’re the CEO or a board member, this one’s for you! https://youtu.be/dTcBImRV7AE
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Board Agenda Placement
Welcome to our fall mini video series! Over the next several weeks we’ll send you short stories of how the Policy Governance® Model impacts real people and real boards that deal with real situations. In our first video we ask: when does your board...
Bloated Board Syndrome?
Does your Board seem excessively overpopulated? Are you thinking a weight loss strategy is in order, but can’t find the right diet? Perhaps it’s time to rethink your governance processes. To illustrate, federations (organizations owned by several organizations) are...
If Governing for the Future is So Important, Why are So Few Boards doing it well?
At The Governance Coach™, we believe that truly responsible boards seek to shape meaningful futures. Yet, from what we’ve observed, only a select few are deeply engaged in that outcome. Here are a few reasons why boards are not getting to that level of profound...
It Takes So Much Time
I think it’s fair to say that learning and understanding monitoring can be a steep curve for both board and CEO. It’s a bit of an unknown process to most boards when they start their Policy Governance® journey. The mere mention of monitoring at a board meeting can...
Board Leadership, Blue Skies and Growing Up
Children ask questions that are both profound and require clear, age-appropriate responses. “Why is the sky blue?” Why does the sky have clouds?” “Why is there pink, red, and orange in the sky when the sun sets?” Behind each of these questions is a whole lot of...
Why the Board Chair Should Not Interpret the Board’s Directives to the CEO?
When I first began governance consulting, I often ran into a misconception that the Board Chair was the CEO’s boss. I don’t encounter that nearly so often these days; but an odd remnant of that view still pops up - some think that the Chair should be the board’s...