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| Re: board work
Posted by carl   on 3/21/2009, 8:54 pm, in reply to "board work"
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Hi Fergbreath,
Let's start with your basic premise. "When nonprofit workers need support around working with an ED..." In my opinion, staff NEVER go to the board for help with working with the ED. Interfering in the relationship between board and staff is NOT the board's role. The board has but one staff member: the ED. Everyone else works for the ED. Staff who "have problems" with the ED should find another place to work. Boards that participate in conflicts between staff and CEO govern by personality, not policy. Governance in this way is a very risky way to run an organization.
In the other side of your scenario, is the board president a volunteer or paid staff member? In other words is the board president also the chief executive officer? The approaches are different for the two roles. If a volunteer board president, i.e. the chief volunteer officer of the organization isn't serving the nonprofit, then a few well-respected members of the board should take the individual aside, perhaps over lunch, and find out what is wrong. If the president is the chief executive officer, i.e. a paid position, then the board should have resolved the issue long, long ago. For example, does the CEO have an annual evaluation? Is the evaluation formal and substantial? Does the report classify accomplishments as "outstanding"? If so what has happened since then? If no evaluation has been made, then the board as a whole should conduct an evaluation of itself and its CEO.
I don't think I've fully answered your question and will try to get back to PND in the next couple of days to lay out a formal process, but first I need to know who we're evalutating, the CEO or the board chair?
Hope some of this helps,
Carl
Richardson Development
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