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

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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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  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