Recruiting Board Members - Leveraging the 4 Phases of Board Recruitment: Cultivation, Recruitment, Orientation and Engagement

The Recruiting Board Members video provides practical tips on how to avoid recruiting the wrong board members. The 20-page viewing guide (12 per toolbox) includes a board self-assessment tool and a pop quiz on board member recruitment effectiveness. Ruth Haley Barton says "One very common leadership mistake is to think that we can take a group of undiscerning individuals and expect them to show up in a leadership setting and all of a sudden become discerning."

Series No. 1 Toolbox Includes: 

• Leveraging the 4 Phases of Board Recruitment: Cultivation, Recruitment, Orientation, and Engagement
• Discerning Appropriate Board Member Qualifications and Criteria: The 6 Ds
• Cultivating Christ-centered Board Prospects: "Dating Before you Propose Marriage!"
• 4 Self-Assessment Checklists

10-MINUTE VIDEO + 10-MINUTE DISCUSSION = ENGAGEMENT!

Balancing Board Roles - Understanding the 3 Board Hats: Governance, Volunteer, Participant

The short video and the Board Member Read-and-Engage Viewing Guide makes this obvious, but seldom practiced point: "If you need a board member—recruit a board member. If you need a volunteer—recruit a volunteer."

The 20-page viewing guide includes a board self-assessment tool for each hat—a perfect resource for your next board meeting.

Series No. 2 Toolbox Includes: 

• Understanding the Board Member's 3 Hats: Governance, Volunteer, and Participant
• Board Volunteer Role Protocol: "Adjourned is adjourned!"
• 3 Self-Assessment Checklists
• 3 Approaches When Asking Board Members to Wear the Participant Hat: Hinting, Whining, or Affirming

10-MINUTE VIDEO + 10-MINUTE DISCUSSION = ENGAGEMENT!

Addressing Board and Organizational Conflicts of Interest—Avoiding Trouble, Trouble, Trouble with Related–Party Transactions

This 16-minute informative and entertaining video and the Board Member Read-and-Engage Viewing Guide addresses three critical questions about conflicts of interest and related-party transactions.

The 20-page viewing guide includes a board self-assessment tool for each question—a perfect resource for your next board meeting.

Series No. 3 Toolbox Includes:

• Understanding What a Conflict of Interest Really Is
• Learn the Options for boards When They Are Faced with Potential Conflict of Interest and Related Party Transactions
• 4 Scenarios: Is the Ministry "Borrowing Troubles?"
• 3 Self-Assessment Checklists

16-MINUTE VIDEO + 10-MINUTE DISCUSSION = ENGAGEMENT!

Succession Planning – 11 Principles for Successful Successions: Every CEO is an Interim CEO

With four short and informative videos, Series No. 4 highlights 11 principles that boards must address to be prepared for emergency and long-term successions. The Board Member Read-and-Engage Viewing Guide can be downloaded and photocopied for each board member and is perfect for brief board development segments at board meetings (one video per board meeting) or for your next board retreat.

The 20-page viewing guide will inspire your board as you invest time in praying and reflecting on how best to address succession planning in your ministry. Don't wait to be inspired by others—inspire them! 

Series No. 4 Toolbox Topics Include: 

• Avoiding Buses and Boredom! 
• Starting Succession on the Right Foot
• Pray and Plan Now! 
• Every CEO Is an Interim CEO

4-SHORT VIDEOs + 10-MINUTE DISCUSSION = ENGAGEMENT!