Does your organization have these traits of a "winning board team?"
- Vision and Purpose: Board members can tell you what the organization will look like and be like by next year, in five years and in the distant future.
- Goal Driven: Board members move toward their vision via specific, written goals and can speak articulately about these goals.
- Results Oriented: Board members strive to attain goals and judge their performance on results related to these goals.
- Committed and Exhilarated: Board members are committed to their vision and the organization's goals, and the commitment shows in the enthusiasm for the organization's projects and performance.
- Sense of Togetherness: Board members know and capitalize upon one another's strengths. They have a joint share in every success and failure.
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- Free Flowing Communication: Board members provide information to keep one another updated and have ready access to accurate decision-making data.
- Uncompromised Quality: Board members do the right things and do things right.
- Inspired Leadership: Board presidents and executives are principled, forward-looking and committed.
- Leadership Support: Everyone supports inspired leadership, in public and in private.
- External Backing: Members of the organization support the board's vision, goals and direction and believe the board must sometimes take risks to achieve great results.
- Political Savvy: Winning board teams know the political system, understand that they must operate within the system and know how to accommodate people and push the agenda toward their vision.
Billie Blair, President/CEO of the organizational change management consulting firm, Leading and Leading, Inc., has worked in strategic alignments with business and industry for 25 years and brings her expertise to focus on supporting CEOs in managing change. She publishes a monthly e-magazine, Lead-Zine, which incorporates current topics in management with a forum for discussion and follow-up. Her latest book, All the Moving Parts: Organizational Change Management, will be available in December. Go to the LLI website, www.leadingandlearninginc.com, for free articles and support materials, or call 951/699-2381 for additional information.
