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Working Together: Effective Board Relations with the Executive Director and Other Staff

Learn best practices for working with the Executive Director and Board to enhance organizational success and impact. Explore roles, responsibilities, HR issues, and more. Resources for nonprofit life-cycle stages provided.

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Working Together: Effective Board Relations with the Executive Director and Other Staff

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  1. Working Together: Effective Board Relations with the Executive Director and Other Staff National Network For Arab American Communities www.nnaac.org

  2. Welcome • Introductions • Ground rules • Agenda

  3. Agenda • Strategic Partnership • Separate and shared roles • Nonprofit life-cycle • Best practices • Executive director goals and review • HR issues • Other issues • Resources

  4. Strategic Partnership • Partnership • Dynamic tension

  5. Roles • Who leads?, who supports?, What is shared?

  6. Executive Leads - Board Supports • Hiring staff and volunteers • Staff development and assessment • Developing operations policies • Developing and assessing programs • Develop annual budget • Prepare financial reports

  7. Board Leads – Executive Supports • Board meeting management • Board recruitment and orientation • Board development and assessment • Hiring, assessment, firing executive • Ensuring mission-based decisions • Monitor strategic accomplishments • Monitor budgets and finances • Create and manage executive transition

  8. Shared Responsibilities • Build and sustain organizational culture • Staff and volunteer recognition • Raise organizational visibility • Establish organization priorities • Create fundraising plans • Build funder relationships

  9. Discussion

  10. Nonprofit Life-cycle • Start-up • Growth • Maturity • Decline • Turnaround • Terminal

  11. Best Practices • Ensure clear role descriptions • Recruit board for strategic expertise • Orient board members to organization • Train board on roles annually • Exec. Dir. strong role in strategic planning • Write strong action plans • Exec. Dir. participate in some committees • Exec. Dir. sends meeting info well ahead • Exec. Dir. and chair create board agendas • Annual Exec. Dir. performance evaluation

  12. Executive Director Review • Written goals • Formal review • Salary adjustment

  13. Human Resources Issues • Staff committee participation • Personnel policies and manual • Salary scales • Benefits schedule in budget • Hiring • Layoffs • Grievances • Serious charges against management

  14. Other Issues • Audit • Micromanagement • Exec. Dir. on board and voting • Limits on communication • Board executive sessions • Who sits where at board meetings? • Yes, the board can fire the Exec. Dir.

  15. Discussion

  16. Resources • The Executive Director’s Survival Guide, M. Carlson & M. Donohoe • www.managementhelp.org • www.blueavocado.org • Nonprofit Lifecycles, Susan Kenny Stevens

  17. Close • Webinars on www.nnaac.org • Next series

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