Planning for Results

Stephen Covey’s first habit of highly successful people, “begin with the end in mind”, also applies to organizations. The purpose of strategic planning is to articulate goals for the organization for the next one to five years. These goals define what the organization is expected to achieve by the specified dates.
Setting such specific [...]

Boards are Only as Strong as Their Weakest Link

“A key person on our board died several months ago and it is taking us a while to recover.” Three people have shared this challenge with me in the past week.
All of these organizations had been proactive in succession planning for officer and committee chair positions. One had a quality experienced [...]

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Who Champions a Change in Organizational Structure?

Changing organizational structure has come up in so many of my conversations in the last week that I thought I should touch on it for all of you who are in the midst of such changes. One of the biggest issues in mergers coming out of these conversations was, “Who should champion the change?”. [...]

Hiring a School Superintendent

This week I attended the public interviews of candidates for school superintendent in a nearby school district. That night the school board members clearly demonstrated two disciplines from the Governance Excellence Model.
The board demonstrated “respect for the owners”, the residents of the school district, by choosing to have public interviews. The [...]