Tips to improve your nonprofit Board of Directors! To take them from "bobblehead" to brilliant!

1. Fio Partners
www.fiopartners.com

2. Source: bobbles.ca

3. Board of Directors
Executive
Leadership
Task #1
Align leadership
on vision, mission,
values, elements
of strategic
management
Quality
Assurance
Organizational
Learning
Task #4
Enact ways to improve
the organization
Leadership
Core
Safeguards and Support
Organization Improvements
Task #2
Design or re-design
the core
Relational
Strategy
Programmatic
Strategy
Systems
Participation
Fund
Development
Marketing/
Public Relations
Program Goals
Strategies
Tactics
Outcomes
Task #3
Create or adjust
supports and safeguards
Financial Management
Organizational Climate
Physical Plant
Human Resources
Risk Management
Information Management
All four tasks take place with continuous input
and interaction with the organization’s environment.
Source: FIO Partners, LLC

4.  Does not manage the
organization
 Creates a framework in which
the Executive Director manages
the agency
 Holds the Director accountable
 Actively and substantively
contributes to the health of the
organization
An effective
Board…

5. Understand
your own stage
of development
and the stage of
your Board
Idea
Start-up
Growth
Established

6. Review Board
by-laws and
maintain
currency and
relevancy;
develop Board
operations
manual to
capture Board
process

7. Create a
strategic plan
based on
objective
information

8. Recruit
strategically,
using
innovative
methods

9. Develop annual
board training
plan, with key
field and skill
building topics

10. Understand
what skills and
passions Board
members have
and what they
want their own
legacy to be

11. Understand
where
operations
discussions
take place and
manage
conflict

12. Link Board
goals to
strategic plan
and monitor
closely

13. Conduct an
annual Board
self-assessment
and ensure
results are
shared; take
action based on
results

14. Build social
connections
and create
positive
momentum

15. What is your
vision? What
step will you
take next?

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Anne Yurasek
@annefio
anne@fiopartners.com