If your board is lagging in the communications department, it can make a serious dent in the body's work, experts argue. When board members aren't communicating with each other properly, they miss tasks and deadlines, they don't connect with each other on matters of importance, and, ultimately, the board's work either gets done poorly or doesn't get done at all.
Nonprofit organizations and their leaders, as sponsors and fiduciaries of group health and welfare plans, operate within a fluid regulatory environment. They must generally adhere to the same federal, state and local laws as their for-profit counterparts, but sometimes do so with less-stringent governance. They often rely on well-intentioned volunteer boards, streamlined human resource structures and a mission-driven focus that can overshadow meticulous attention to regulatory details.
Whether your board is chock full of seasoned veterans, a bunch of newbies or some mixture thereof, experts say you should be encouraging them all to keep up with the skills they have, and build on them as they serve their term on the board.
Now that the new year is underway, advise that nonprofit boards revisit their bylaws to make sure they are up to date and still working and appropriate for the organization.
When it comes time for your nonprofit to integrate new members to the board, a comprehensive and thoughtful orientation can mean the difference between having engaged and effective board members, and ones that struggle to connect the dots between their governance and the organization's progress toward its mission and goals.
There's plenty of tricks to having an engaging board meeting that keeps board members involved, talking, thinking and ultimately, making good governance decisions. But experts argue that just as important as what happens before and during such meetings is what happens in the aftermath—follow-up.
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