Board Development & Training

All non-profits may have a board of directors, but unfortunately few people, including staff and board members themselves, know about their required duties, including fundraising, outreach, and long term planning, or how to view serving on a board as exciting, rather than simply a service. A fully-functioning board of directors allows your organization to run at peak performance. To create a board that offers visionary leadership and also operates as a powerful fundraising machine for your organization, do good Consulting can help your board:

• Clarify organizational goals, the role of the board, and member's roles within it
• Evaluate board and committee structure for maximum effectiveness
• Develop supporting documents such as member manuals, member contracts, and guiding principles to enhance collective understanding of board procedures
• Train board members in fundraising and outreach responsibilities and techniques
• Facilitate invigorating strategic planning sessions
• Facilitate effective, and even exciting, meetings
• Clarify meeting processes including agenda creation, decision-making, and expectations for participation
• Develop inviting board recruitment plans
• Develop new-member on-boarding processes to assist in the retention of board knowledge and skills
• Design appropriate and effective staff-board communications
• Design relevant and memorable board retreats that slingshot the group into action

Contact do good for a consultation meeting on what services would most effectively support your Board and organization!

Topics that are also related to board development include:

Group Dynamics

The quality of how people interact will determine the quality of their work. Cultural background, communication style, conflict capacity, level of trust, and degree of commitment are all factors that affect a group's dynamics: how they work together. Whether you want to move from merely functional to enthusiastic, or from frustrating to fantastic, do good can help assess your needs and design responsive approaches to make working together work.

Teambuilding

At the heart of every effective team is a core of mutual respect. Without this, backbiting, ego-baiting, nit-picking, gossip, or simple stress can have a group spending most of its energy dealing with each other instead of with the tasks at hand. One of the most valuable and overlooked investments in a group is taking steps, large or small, to enhance the relationships between members. do good Consulting's expertise can help you assess the needs of your group and design tactics and practices or programs that will inspire your team to its highest potential.

Cultural Diversity & Social Identity Skills

In our multi-cultural world, the unique experiences people have make our communities and workplaces lush. Being familiar with and attentive to social identities means better communication, productivity, and satisfaction for everyone. However, the rich resources of a person's cultural heritage can be overlooked or even suppressed unintentionally by ignorant leaders or colleagues. To excel in today's world one needs to recognize and appreciate the value of diversity. Through custom workshops, do good can work with your leadership or staff to enhance capacity to utilize and respect the many social identities of each board member.

Board Retreats

Many board members balance their obligations to your organization with full time jobs, family, and other responsibilities. During regular board meetings, there is often little time to reflect on the larger picture of what is being accomplished, to notice what isn't happening, or to understand what's blocking productivity. Retreats, whether for an evening or a week, offer the time and space to acknowledge successes – and challenges – which reveal opportunities that would otherwise fall through the cracks. do good Consulting can work with you to design a retreat that will leave participants feeling recognized, refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to re-engage with the work at hand.

Conflict Resolution

Conflict is a normal part of organizational life. Handled properly, conflict can provide numerous opportunities for growth. do good Consulting can help your board address a specific incident, deal with a 'problem person', root out ongoing unrest, or in creating a climate where conflict is seen as a welcome lever for learning. By creating processes that address root causes and create shared understanding, moments of conflict can become opportunities for engagement, relief, and overall improved relations and team effectiveness.

 

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“We have a Bored of Directors, not a Board of Directors. We need to re-engage them in our work and really get them active and organized.”

"We got a grant to host a board retreat, can do good help?"

"Our board is pretty dysfunctional -- we need help pulling the team back together."