Location: BoardSource Leadership Forum, San Francisco, California
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Registration and continental breakfast at 8:00am.
This two-day training will focus on key governance topics and the many complex challenges governance consultants face in working with nonprofit organizations. Learn how to help boards govern effectively in the current climate of uncertainty, and strengthen your own capacity to help boards deal with conflict, work better and smarter, and think and plan strategically, among other topics.
Program Overview
Course Objectives
Who should attend
Approach
Registration and Fees
Accommodations
Program Overview
Consultants offering services to nonprofit boards need to share experiences with others engaged in similar work and to ponder challenging ideas about nonprofit leadership and organization dynamics. This training will focus on both key governance topics as well as the challenges faced by the individual as a governance consultant working with nonprofit organizations.
Among the topics covered in the program are:
- Drivers of change in nonprofit governance
- Emerging issues and trends
- Dealing with conflict on boards
- How to help boards work better and smarter
- Competencies of effective boards
- Thinking and planning strategically
- How to help boards manage change
- Ethics in governance
- Strengthening one's own consulting skills
Course Objectives
The curriculum of this professional development program is designed to serve two purposes:
- to share insights and materials that BoardSource has developed during its work with hundreds of nonprofit boards and thousands of board and senior staff members, and
- to promote peer interaction and sharing of information and experience brought by participants.
Who Should Attend
Registration is limited. Attendance is recommended for:
- Consultants, trainers, management assistance providers, directors of training, or field staff from national organizations who offer their services to nonprofit boards AND have been serving this role for at least 5 years.
- Graduates of at least one other BoardSource Practitioner Program (Critical Components of Effective Governance or Assessment of Governing Boards and Chief Executives).
Approach
Each course makes extensive use of case histories and small group work as well as group discussion. A binder of resource materials is included in the price of each course. Evening homework will be assigned.
Registration and Fees
Price per course includes tuition, materials, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. Accommodations are not included in the price. Participants are responsible for making their own flight and hotel reservations.
Registration includes the following publications:
Accommodations
BoardSource has reserved a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco for the special price of $219 single/double. To make room reservations, call 800-233-1234 or 415-788-1234.
