Board Effectiveness

Effective Board Governance Dr. Ken Haycock 2011 For related resources, visit our website: www.kenhaycock.com

Basic Factors in Effectiveness
Determine Mission and Purpose
Select/Support/
Evaluate the CEO
Articulate Roles and Relationships
Plan Strategically/ Allocate Resources
Monitor and Evaluate/Accountability
Maintain Legal and Ethical Integrity
Public Standing and Credibility
Recruit Aggressively/
Assess Performance

1. Determine Mission and Purpose
What business are we in?
How do we measure success?
Outputs vs. outcomes

2. Select/Support/Evaluate the CEO
Position profile
Community profile
Knowledge; skills; attributes
Succession management
Performance measures
Current issues

3. Roles and Relationships
Board/Ground Rules
Board/Mayor/Council/
Municipal Manager
Board/Community/Power Bases
Board/CEO
Board/CEO/Community/Power Bases
Board/CEO/Staff/Community
CEO/Municipal Manager/Executive

Conflict (Who? Us? Not!)

4.Plan Strategically… Allocate Resources
Preferred Futures (roles)
Process/Outcomes
Walk the Talk: The Agenda
(“don’t major in the minors”)
Who Drives the Agenda?
Consent/Information; Decision; Exploration
Delegations? Representation? Liaison?

Plan Strategically: Priority?
This project is so important that we cannot allow things that are more important to interfere with it!
Doing the same things twice as hard will not lead to different results.
How will the world be different tomorrow as a result of what we do here today?
If we don’t know where we’re going…
any road will take us there…

5. Monitor and Evaluate…
Effect of Organizational Culture
Goals
S.M.A.R.T. Objectives
Evidence-based Decision-making
What? Why? Who? When? How?
5% Cut: What goes and why?
Monitor and Adjust… Accountability

6. Enhance Public Standing
Community events (what is “political”?)
Community information
Role counterparts
Profile of Director/CEO
Profile of Chair

7. Maintain Integrity
Legal: Effect of legislation
Ethical: Effect of decision-making
Financial: Effect of priorities

8. Recruit/Assess Performance
Succession Management for the Board
Older Readers or Community Leaders?
Trustee or Board Development?
Goal-driven or Reward-driven?
Improve the knowledge base…
Governance Committee?
Sustainability/Performance/
Audit Committee?

Board Performance
Improved education
Improved relations
Improved strategic development
annual work plans
Improved monitoring, tracking, evaluation of programs and services
( not personnel)

Clichés?
Improvement is not mandatory …
but then neither is survival.—Deming
Anything worth doing well…
is worth doing slowly.—West
Rowing is the only activity where you can sit on your backside, look backwards, and still make progress…
How many Board members does it take to change the Board? Only one, but the Board has to want to change…

The Choice Is Yours
What kind of Board?
What kind of relationships?
What kind of impact?
What kind of difference?

Basic Factors in Effectiveness
Determine Mission and Purpose
Select/Support/
Evaluate the CEO
Articulate Roles and Relationships
Plan Strategically/ Allocate Resources
Monitor and Evaluate/Accountability
Maintain Legal and Ethical Integrity
Public Standing and Credibility
Recruit Aggressively/
Assess Performance

Implications
Necessary knowledge
Well-defined roles
(not “command and control”)
Strategy and direction-setting vs. implementation and detail
Open flow of information (director)
Opinions of community leaders (solicit)
Value-added dimensions to community

Strategies
Knowledge-based governance leads to dialogue around critical issues
Direct communication with customers and stakeholders
Strong core values
Clear focus

Dr. Ken Haycock
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Board Effectiveness

by Ken Haycock & Associates Inc. on Mar 08, 2011

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