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New Board Member Orientation Manual
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A Board Orientation Manual reinforces information provided during orientation seminars. Consider these items in custom-designing an orientation manual for your board.
New Board Member Orientation Process
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All new board members should participate in an orientation process shortly after election to
the board. To design your board’s orientation process, consider these best practices.
Top 10 Practices of Great Boards
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Be sure every member fully understands his or her accountability, responsibilities and the expectations of the office, and document it all in a written position description...
Creating the Right Boardroom Conversations
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Establishing well-organized and consistent governance processes and procedures enables the board to be most productive, and ensures that its time is allocated to the most critical topics. Agendas should reflect the most important strategic issues and priorities, and make efficient use of trustees’ valuable and limited time; meetings should be designed to maximize trustees’ ability to engage in critical dialogue; and committees and task forces should be used to enable the board to focus time on high-level strategic discussion.
Current High-Performance Governance Practices
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For boards to participate in shaping their new organization, they must be currently performing at an extremely high level. The following is a list of four practices that hospital and health system boards must be engaged in today, in order to be successful in the future.
Sample General Principles Regarding Conflict of Interest
Board Policies
The following document is intended to be an example that boards should adapt to meet their individual needs.
Board-Stakeholder Checklist
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The organization’s most important stakeholders have been identified/specified. A descriptive/analytic profile has been prepared for each key stakeholder. The interests (needs/wants, expectations and organizational success criteria)
of each stakeholder have been documented.
Board's Role in the Strategic Planning Process
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This checklist poses questions about whether your board is following recommended practices for strategic planning.
Standard Work for Governance Example
Board Policies
Standard Work for Governance Example
Source: St. Charles Health System. Used with Permission.
Governance, Leadership & Management Grid
Dashboards/Scorecards
By Stephen Mansfield
While a clear, bright line between the roles of governance and management does not exist for every issue that boards and orga