Carol Weisman

Governance Consulting and Speaking: Nonprofit Success for Boards and Staff

These are some of Carol's most commonly requested governance topics. She addresses these issues in a variety of formats according to your needs including board and staff retreats, workshops, keynotes, executive coaching and long-term consulting.

Carol can help your board discover how best to share their gifts.

Recruiting

• Who should serve on your board?
• Where do you find them?
• What is the best approach?
• What do you expect of them?
• How do you effectively communicate your expectations?
• What is the difference between governance and management?
• Who should be involved in recruiting? The role of the board and staff

Board Orientation
(also called On-Boarding or Induction)

• Training your board in your case statement
• Questions to ask your new board members
• Clarifying expectation
• Finding the right fit for talents
• Creating a “mission moment”

Board Committees

• Effectively using the executive committee
• What should be a standing committee
• Creating a template for committee reporting
• Working with committee chairs

Board Meetings

• How to get people to attend?
• What do you do if they don’t show-the tasty carrot or the dreaded stick (is there a stick for your board?)
• Utilizing everyone’s strategic thinking abilities in the board room
• Tips and techniques from popcorn check-ins to red and green flags
• Using a scrum with staff
• The joys of a consent agenda
• Handling difficult people
• Handling non-difficult people  (your silent, thoughtful folks who don’t share their great ideas)

Carol can help your board become experts in your mission.

Creating Mission, Vision and Values Statements

• How are we?
• What are we going to do?
• How do we know if we are successful?
• What is the ethical standard by which we do business?

Goals Setting

• Who should be involved in the process?
• How many goals should we have?
• How should we evaluate our goals?
• Who should set the evaluation criteria?

If any of these topics are of interest to you, call Carol at 314-863-4422 or e-mail her.