Here’s a great question to drive your strategic planning: What is success? Follow-up questions could be: What does success look like? How will we know when we achieved it? How can we measure it? If you can answer that one key question, a host of other questions would be easy to answer. Other things fall…
Organizational Development
Personnel Changes: Part 2
The interview, background check, hiring process, etc. is completed. You’ve chosen your candidate and he/she has accepted the open position. Now what? More change… Although there are multiple approaches to successful onboarding, the subject of this article will be managing the changing team synergy and dynamics during the onboarding process. A successful onboarding program actually…
Podcast: New ED Growth and the Power of Manifestos
Beth Chase and Tara Zettel, RN, Executive Director of Connect Medical Clinic, have a conversation about Tara’s experience as a new executive director. Tara also shares how Beth’s Leadership Manifesto helped her identify her leadership strategy while inspiring Tara to develop a Team Manifesto with her staff during their annual team inservice earlier this year.Podcast…
What are vision and mission statements? Ask Beth
18 Elements of Effective Bylaws
A GUIDE 1. Name of the Organization 2. Purpose: Charitable, Educational, Religious, Scientific (any or all); Consistent with Articles of Incorporation 3. Who, if any, are the members: Usually Board members are only members or the organization has no members 4. Corporate Officers: Usually President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Executive Director / CEO (Check for state…
Board Meeting Minutes Are A Legal Document
Many board members think that board meeting minutes are comprehensive notes about all that occurred at the board meeting. But that is not the case. Rather, board meeting minutes are a written permanent record of decisions and actions made by the Board of Directors on behalf of the corporation. Minutes may be subpoenaed and used…