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Board
Education: What to Teach?
Question: The following question was posed at our site last month: Do you have an efficient and tactful way of evaluating the financial acumen of board members? I need to find out what they do or do not understand about our finances. We often chuckle when we see the perturbations boards and staff go through in developing board education programs. The most engaged organizations gather a committee, which then meets to review all the things they believe the board should know. They determine who will teach that information and how it will be taught. Then the board determines when that program will be held. The more common practice is to skip the committee and just have the Executive Director design the program. Putting aside for a moment the list of reasons an ED should not be deciding what her bosses need to know, the reality in both these cases is that board and staff alike continue to feel as if there is a ton of information board members simply do not know, regardless of the effort they put into their orientation program.
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