orientation for public library board
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An overview of the Board's 3 key responsibilities and building 15 minutes into each meeting to discuss strategic issues. With special mention of Dr. Ken Haycock from whom I have learned so much about Board governance.TRANSCRIPT
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Non-Profit Boards Smart, Effective, Fulfilling
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Ensuring Board are:
Smart Effective
Fulfilling
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Board Responsibility
Strategy
CEO Public
Standing & Ethical Integrity
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Base assumptions
Want to make a difference
Prepared to make a difference
Believe that the Library does & can make a difference
Best libraries have the best Boards
Different perspectives & perceptions
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Base assumption
Boards lose the effectiveness & collective as well as individual fulfillment when: Lack of common vision for the Library Blurring of Board/Patron/Operational responsibility As soon as you become a Board member you cease
being the Library client you once were & will be again when you are no longer on the Board
If staff come to you about issues, direct them to the CEO
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Board Responsibility
Strategy
CEO Public
Standing & Ethical Integrity
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Essential questions
Am I willing to invest the time to create common voice for our Board and a clear sense of strategy?
Am I willing to work with the Board to focus on our roles?
Am I willing to delegate to staff the means of implementation? Am I willing to avoid micromanagement and administration?• And I willing to be fair, consistent and constructive in feedback to the CEO?
Thank you to Dr. Ken Haycock for these, & for teaching me about Boards
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Essential questions
Can I acknowledge that the CEO directs the staff, not the Board?
Am I willing to invest the time in planning meetings to ensure success? [generate items; develop criteria; apply criteria]
Am I willing to invest in improvement? [feedback; retreats; process observer]
Am I willing to model the behaviors that the Board values? [consensus building? starting/finishing on time? moving the agenda forward?]
Am I willing to invest my time in improving the public standing of the Library? Developing meaningful, effective relationships with council and the Town?
Thank you to Dr. Ken Haycock for these, & for teaching me about Boards
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Where are you?
Smart Effective
Fulfilling
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Strategy • Doesn’t happen overnight • Build generative or
strategic issue discussions into every agenda
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What’s an issue for your strategy?
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Google searching
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“Rowing is the only activity in which people can sit on their backsides, look backwards & still make progress.”
Ken Haycock
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Public Standing & Ethical Integrity
• Financials • Council & City Relationships • Library Positive Positioning • Board Recruitment &
Succession Planning
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CEO
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