Post Categories
Board Capacity Building
- Strengthening board composition (indirectly, by influencing appointments and encouraging interest)
- Strengthening board members’ governing knowledge and skills
- Updating/refining board structure (committees; board meeting format and schedule)
- Processes to engage board members actively in key governing areas – e.g., strategic and operational planning/budgeting; performance monitoring – and in important non-governing volunteer work – e.g., image building; external/stakeholder relations
Board-Superintendent Involvement in External Relations/Resource Development
- Image update/branding
- External communication/advocacy
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Financial resource development (especially local tax support)
Board-Superintendent Involvement in Innovation/Change Management
- Values/vision/mission updates
- Strategic issues
- Change initiatives
- Change implementation
Board-Superintendent Relationship
- Role differentiation
- Communication/interaction guidelines
- Relationship management techniques
- Board chair-superintendent relationship
- Board evaluation of superintendent performance
Board-Savvy Superintendents
- Attitude
- Knowledge/traits/skills
- Roles: in board development; design of board engagement processes that foster board members’ ownership; board-superintendent relationship building and relationship management
- Providing board members with ego satisfaction
Superintendent Professional Growth
- Self-knowledge and awareness
- Knowledge acquisition (books; mentors; experience)
- Career planning
- Learning from failure
- Spiritual dimension of growth (dealing with fear)
Doug Eadie
President & CEO of Doug Eadie & Company, Inc., Doug Eadie assists superintendents in building rock-solid partnerships with their school boards.
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