03/20/2017

A Better Way to Train Boards: Take a Look

Help alleviate the challenge of board training

For NACE International, bite-size videos are a solution to the drudgery of board orientation.

Board orientation is a roadblock. For a new volunteer leader, there are few things more dispiriting than being told they’ll be charged with thinking big thoughts and setting strategy for an organization, and then kicking things off with a drowsy discussion of bylaws.

That stuff is essential, of course. New volunteers have have a duty to know understand how an organization is run—its structure, its code of ethics, its policies and procedures, its legal landmines. But a lot of associations still deliver this information in ways that guarantee tedium. There are stacks of briefing books and hours-long sit down sessions at the first meeting of the new board, which siphon time away from strategic discussions.

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