Is your board really good? Mediocre? Or actually dysfunctional? How would you know? By comparing your board to the best standards for best governance. Join this webinar and listen to Simone Joyaux, ACFRE explain some of her favorite standards — too often ignored and mostly unknown.

1. Making Your
Board Stronger
(You’ll Be Glad You Did!)
6/15/15
1pm Eastern
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Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE
• Simone has written three books: Keep Your
Donors. Strategic Fund Development.
Firing Lousy Board Members. She regularly
serves on boards – often as chair…. and
has founded two organizations.
• Currently Simone chairs the Board of
Directors of Planned Parenthood of
Southern New England and also chairs the
Advisory Board of the Centre for
Sustainable Philanthropy at Plymouth
University in the U.K.
• She presents all over the world and teaches
in the masters program in philanthropy and
development at Saint Mary’s University in
Minnesota.

5. Making Your Board Stronger
You’ll be glad you did!
Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, MinstF (Adv Dip)
Joyaux Associates
A Bloomerang webinar

6. Your board
Really good? Mediocre? Or dysfunctional?
How would you know?
Compare your board to the best
standards for best governance.

7. The Standards
Body of knowledge | Best practice ?
Invent you own? Oh dear…!!
Where did my standards come from?

8. Board or Board Member
Be careful. This is an important distinction.
A distinction that makes a difference.
This webinar focuses on the board…a
group…the collective.

9. Areas of focus
1. Composition of the board
2. Selection, recruitment, and evaluation of board
members
3. Orientation and development of the board
4. Board monitoring of organizational health
5. Board / CEO relations

10. Areas of focus, continued…
6. Board operations
7. Board meetings
8. Committee or task force operations
9. Evaluation of the board
10. Philanthropy and fund development

11. Survey Responses
! Yes… Our board adheres to the standard.
! Needs improvement…
! No… Our board does not adhere to the
standard.
! I don’t know.

12. Examining specific standards
Recruitment process considers issues of
diversity, e.g., gender, generation, sexual
orientation, ethnicity, socioeconomics,
skills, etc. when identifying candidates for
Board membership.
(Page 3. 1b.)

13. Examining specific standards
Board discusses the types of behaviors that
contribute to group effectiveness, seeks
individuals who behave accordingly, and
avoids individuals whose behaviors
negatively affect the group.
(Page 3. 1g.)

14. Examining specific standards
Regular performance evaluation of Board
members distinguishes between those who
should be invited to continue service and
those who should be thanks and released..
(Page 3. 2g.)

15. Examining specific standards
Regular performance evaluation of Board
members distinguishes between those who
should be invited to continue service and
those who should be thanks and released..
(Page 3. 2g.)

16. Examining specific standards
The Board ensures that there is:
• Consistency between priorities and resource
allocation.
• Sufficient resources for the future.
• Sustainability for the organization.
(Page 4. 4d.)

17. Examining specific standards
Board understands and respects its equal
partnership with the CEO. (Page 4. 5a.)
The Board has a process to assess the CEO
and does so annually. (Page 4. 5b.)

18. Examining specific standards
The board understands that corporate governance
is a collective act and happens only when the
Board (its members) are together….Hence the
stringent requirement for attendance, preparation,
and participation. (Page 5. 6d.)

19. Examining specific standards
Board officers – including the board chair –
understand that they have no more authority than
any other board member… And behave
accordingly.
(Page 5. 6e.)

20. Examining specific standards
Policies define the scope of authority and
limitations in various areas, for example:
Role of the Board. Performance expectations of
the individual Board member. Role of officers.
Committee roles and operations. Conflict of
interest. CEO job description and limitations.
(Page 5, #6h.)

21. Examining specific standards
The board and its members clearly distinguish
between unanimity of voting and unity of voice.
(Page 5, #6p.)

22. Examining specific standards
The CEO – providing guidance to the Board –
knows how to translate the board’s job
description into due diligence activities carried
out at board meetings.
(Page 6, 7.a.)

23. Examining specific standards
The board engages in substantive strategic
conversation and decision-making at meetings,
rather than focusing on reports. (Page 6, 7.d.)
Board members receive relevant information in
advance, translated into trends and implications.
(Page 6, 7.f.)

24. Examining specific standards
The board decides whether an executive
committee (or some other similar committee)
adds sufficient value to compensate for potential
disempowerment of the board.
(Page 6, 8.i.)

25. Examining specific standards
The board regularly assess its own performance
and makes improvements as needed.
(Page 7. 9.a.)
[Simone note: And that’s what this governance
self-assessment is…the tool.]

26. Examining specific standards
Policy clearly defines the individual board member’s
responsibilities in philanthropy and fund
development (Page 7. 10.c.)
[See 10.d. for the specific roles and responsibilities.]

27. Examining specific standards
The board ensures that the organization fulfills
its accountability and reporting to regulators
and donors.
(Page 7. 10. f.)

28. Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, MinstF (Adv Dip)
Joyaux Associates | www.simonejoyaux.com | spjoyaux@aol.com
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