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Northland Healthcare Alliance

Northland Healthcare Alliance. Working with Boards.  Communicate in an organized, systematic way. Northland Healthcare Alliance. Key Principles. Good: Information to the Board at least one week prior to the meeting assembled in a concise packet arranged with tabs and page numbers.

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Northland Healthcare Alliance

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  1. Northland Healthcare Alliance Working with Boards

  2.  Communicate in an organized, systematic way. Northland Healthcare Alliance Key Principles Good: Information to the Board at least one week prior to the meeting assembled in a concise packet arranged with tabs and page numbers. Bad: Information given out at Board Meeting without time for review or two days before hoping it will get there in time. Really Bad: Send out piece mill five days in a row before meeting.

  3.  Use Information Diffusion to Build Support Northland Healthcare Alliance Key Principles Good:Work with Board Committees to accomplish work of the Board - Finance, Nominating, Executive - They plow the field for progress and comfort Bad: Spring new ideas on the Board for the first time at the meeting without material in Board packet. Really Bad: Save bad news and spring it on the Board without sharing with anyone prior to the meeting.

  4.  Work to Make the Board Structure Appropriate Northland Healthcare Alliance Key Principles Good: Create variety and diversity and enough members to bring out the best ideas and input for progress. Bad: Have a Board structure with two or three egos that do not like each other and are in competitive positions. Really Bad: Have a board full of hospital administrators that hate each other and hate you as the Executive Director.

  5.  Be a Strong Proponent of What is Right Northland Healthcare Alliance Key Principles Good: Know what you want to accomplish, provide truthful information and stand up to bully. Bad: Talk in half truths, tell some Board members one thing and others another thing. ReallyBad: Never stand for anything.

  6.  Teach Board Correct Principles Northland Healthcare Alliance Key Principles Good: It is not necessary for Executive Director to do training, but it is important for members to understand what is their role. Bad: Allow Board members to continue with ignorant ideas and bad behaviors like micro managing or controlling every discussion. Really Bad: Live with intolerable board behaviors and hope that it will get better someday.

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