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Relish Your Role
Relish Your Role is hosted by Nancy Fournier Ph.D., Relationship Strategist for Women Nonprofit EDs. This show offers practical guidance and support to women leaders of nonprofit organizations who want to strengthen their many work relationships and regain control over their time. Episodes will cover how to delegate with confidence, inspire your board, develop healthy work habits, and other topics to help you have time to re-energize your creative process and run your agency with authentic power. The show will also provide actionable tips in response to the unique challenges confronting women EDs. Nancy has over 30 years of experience in nonprofit management, board training and executive coaching.
Relish Your Role
4. Bonding With Your Board Chair
Like it or not, for most nonprofit EDs, managing their board takes at least 25% of their time.
In my experience, less than half of nonprofit leaders feel their Board pulls their weight with respect to being effective agency ambassadors.
So you have this group of well-intended volunteers who take a lot of an executive director’s mental energy with little to show for it.
There are many levers to pull to get one’s Board engaged and active.
Today I want to focus on the relationship between the Board chair and the ED as one piece of the puzzle of developing and engaged Board of Directors.
If you can get fully aligned with your Board chair and create a respectful, boundary appropriate relationship you are half way there to changing the dynamic where the Board shifts from a burden to an asset.
This shift takes time and intentionality-
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Find more practicable tips on my website Relish Your Role. com. I have so much respect for the work you do!
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