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ISBN: 0787902969

Comments: Inside Flap Copy&newline;Basic Principles of Policy Governance offers your board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. The guide presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization. Basic Principles of Policy Governance shows how to: &newline;&newline; Implement Policy Governance in nine easy steps &newline; Become a think tank for vision rather than a reviewer of staff decisions and activities &newline; Bring the diversity of a board's views to a single voice &newline; Determine the legitimacy of a particular committee &newline; Defuse the renegade board member &newline; Create board policies that embody the board's beliefs, commitments, values and vision &newline; Structure a board so it is defining and delegating rather than reacting and ratifying &newline; Free the board to provide leadership in exploring and creating strategic visioni&newline;&newline; &newline;&newline;Back Cover Copy&newline;Basic Principles of Policy Governance offers your board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. The guide presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.&newline;Basic Principles of Policy Governance shows how to:&newline;&newline; Implement Policy Governance in nine easy steps&newline;&newline; Become a think tank for vision... read more &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;Offers board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. Presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.

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ISBN: 0787902977

Comments: Inside Flap Copy&newline;In this Carver Guide, the authors show how board members can be successful strategic leaders, willing to cherish diversity, strive for accountability, and pinpoint board positions, for the good of the organization. Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member describes the essentials of the board member's job, and relates the job to Carver's Policy Governance model—which makes it possible to craft plans that define the essential areas of board job performance.Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member shows how to: &newline;&newline; Decide when a board meeting should be hands-on and when to be hands-off &newline; Represent the broad ownership of the organization, not a single consituency &newline; Honor divergent opinions without being intimidated by them &newline; Use every board member's special expertise to help other members get a broader understanding of the issues &newline; Train yourselv to examine, question, and define the big picture &newline; Focus your energies on making a difference in the larger world rather than on managing your staff &newline; Tolerate issues that cannot be quickly settled&newline;&newline; &newline;&newline;Back Cover Copy&newline;In this Carver Guide, the authors show how board members can be successful strategic leaders, willing to cherish diversity, strive for accountability, and pinpoint board positions, for the good of the organization. Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member describes the essentials of the board member's job, and relates the job to Carver's Policy Governance model—which makes it possible to craft plans that define the essential areas of board job performance.&newline;Your Roles and... read more &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;Shows how board members must be successful strategic leaders, willing to cherish diversity, strive for accountability, and pinpoint board positions, for the good of the organization. Describes the essentials of the board member's job, and relates the job to Carver's Policy Governance model.

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ISBN: 0787902985

Comments: Book Description&newline;Offers a strategic approach to the issues of finances and board responsibility, revealing how a board can get down to the business of governing its organization's financial planning by controlling budget values rather than budget numbers. Shows how a board can address the issue of actual fiscal conditions by creating plicies that safeguard an organization's real fiscal health.&newline;&newline;From the Inside Flap&newline;John Carver: &doublequote;Nothing gives boards more concern than the handling of money. They worry far more about how funds are protected and spent than about whether total expAnditures produce a sufficient human outcome.&doublequote;Is your board suffering concern and anxiety about how it will handle its fiduciary responsibility to the organization? Carver offers a strategic approach to the issue of finances and board responsibility. In Three Steps to Fiduciary Responsibility Carver reveals how a board can get down to the business of governing its organization's financial planning by controlling budget values rather than budget members.And, he shows how to address the separate issue of actual fiscal conditions by creating policies that safeguard an organization's real fiscal health. Three Steps to Fiduciary Responsibility shows how to: &newline;&newline; Craft policy to safeguard the organization's actual fiscal condition &newline; Use a sample budget policy form--which has been used by a large nonprofit organization--as a guide to creating your own &newline; Create a solid budget policy for management to follow that allows for flexibility while retaining integrity &newline; Decide which relationships, aspects, and characteristics of the budget should be of importance to the board &newline; Use policy language that constitutes an authoritative and reliable checklist for board and staff

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ISBN: 0787903000

Comments: Book Description&newline;Describes the fundamental responsibilities of the chairpersonof the board: to ensure the functioning of the board and the integrity of the board process. Offers invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance. &newline;&newline;From the Inside Flap&newline;This Carver Guide describes the fundamental role of the chairperson of the board--helping the board to lead the organization. This Carver Guide helps you develop your role as leader in this process, yet servant to the board as a body. Carver includes invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance. The Chairperson's Role as Servant-Leader to the Board show you how to: &newline;Design the job of the board--including organizational results, operational control, time management, and staff relations &newline; Determine your role in decision making and establish boundaries as chairperson &newline; Develop the initial rules of conduct so the board can stay disciplined and on track &newline; Establish the appropriate number of officers for optimal performance &newline; Create a leadership position for yourself where the board shares the assumption of responsibility &newline; Plan for succession

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Price: $16.00

Edition: 1st ed

ISBN: 0787903019

Comments: Inside Flap Copy&newline;In Planning Better Board Meetings, John Carver examines how to restrict crowded agendas, scattered focuses of discussion, and all the familiar weaknesses of group discipline—and use board energy efficiently and effectively. He tells how to select subject matter for meetings, how to plan use of board time, control the agenda, and discusses how long a board meeting should be in order to fulfill its task of governing. In this Carver Guide, you will learn how to: &newline;&newline; Choose subject matter for meetings taking into account short term demands and long term needs &newline; Avoid de facto &doublequote;rubber stamping&doublequote; of board decisions &newline; Set board agendas that are truly the board's agenda, and not those of the individual &newline; Determine the length of meetings to adequately fulfill the board's task &newline; Solicit divergent input, yet resolve it into a single point&newline;&newline;. &newline;&newline;Back Cover Copy&newline;In Planning Better Board Meetings, John Carver examines how to restrict crowded agendas, scattered focuses of discussion, and all the familiar weaknesses of group discipline—and use board energy efficiently and effectively. He tells how to select subject matter for meetings, how to plan use of board time, control the agenda, and discusses how long a board meeting should be in order to fulfill its task of governing.&newline;In this Carver Guide, you will learn how to:&newline;&newline; Choose subject matter&newline;&newline;... read more &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;Examines how to restrict crowded agendas, scattered focuses of discussion, and all the familiar weaknesses of group discipline--and use board energy efficiently and effectively. Tells how to select subject matter for meetings, how to plan use of board time, control the agenda, and discusses how long a board meeting should be in order to fulfill its task of governing.

Summary: Examines how to restrict crowded agendas, scattered focuses of discussion, and all the familiar weaknesses of group discipline--and use board energy efficiently and effectively. Tells how to select subject matter for meetings, how to plan use of board time, control the agenda, and discusses how long a board meeting should be in order to fulfill its task of governing.

ISBN: 0787903027

Comments: Book Description&newline;Looks at how to write a mission statement that delivers a powerful message. Shows how to make the statement one of concrete, practical utility, not just inspirational value. Provides a useful Mission Statement Checklist and advice on how to evaluate the completed statement.&newline;&newline;From the Inside Flap&newline;This Carver Guide shows how to write a mission statement that delivers a powerful message about the identity of the organization, clarifying the issues of what results are to be achieved, for or with which people, and at what cost. Carver shows how to make the statement concrete, not just one of rhetorical or inspirational value. He provides sample mission statements, a useful mission statement checklist, and practical advice on how to evaluate the completed statement. Specifically, in this Carver Guide you will learn: &newline;&newline; What is the central role of the mission statment &newline; How to create an effective mission statement &newline; What are the characteristics of the mission statement &newline; How to evaluate your mission statement

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ISBN: 0787908347

Comments: Book Description&newline;Tackles the often difficult issue of CEO evaluation.

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ISBN: 0787908339

Comments: Book Description&newline;Offers a novel whole-systems approach to this primary task by outlining the guiding principles of successful self-assessment. Your board will learn how to craft a policy that will spell out its job description and plan its conduct. In addidtion, it will learn how it can best implement self-assessment to see if it is doing its job and acting as it had planned.

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Price: $16.00

Edition: 1st ed

ISBN: 0787910848

Comments: Book Description&newline;Just as Carver's Policy Governance transforms the board's job, it also transforms the job of the CEO. This guide offers practical advice for nonprofit CEOs on working with board members under this powerful model.

Summary: Just as Carver's Policy Governance transforms the board's job, it also transforms the job of the CEO. This guide offers practical advice for nonprofit CEOs on working with board members under this powerful model.

ISBN: 0925299898

Comments: Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 14-15).

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Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780788173561

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Price: $27.95

Edition: 1

ISBN: 0940069091

Summary: It's a familiar refrain, "How do we get more money to keep our nonprofit in business?" Yet, the authors of Coping with Cutbacks say for long-term success you should really be asking, "How do we involve other segments of the community in our work?"
This unique guide shows you ways to make new connections, create buy-in, and bring new partners to the table to accomplish your mission. It also gives you a six-step process for coming up with solutions to problems—financial or otherwise—plus 185 specific cutback strategies you can put to use right away.

Price: $85.95

ISBN: 1893210022

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