319. Discerning Your Boards ‘Blind Spots’— Engaging a Risk Assessment Process.
Everyone has blind spots — physical, cognitive, moral, relational and spiritual. Usually external voices have to point these out to us before we recognize them and become motivated to deal with them....
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318. My New Book About Leading as a Church Board Chairperson.
A few years ago I developed a “Manual for Church Board Chairs.” During the past year I have edited this manual into a book entitled: The Art of Kubernēsis (1 Corinthians 12:28): Leading As the Church...
View Article320. Anticipating — A Necessary Bit of Board Leadership.
The transition between years provides opportunity for a board’s leadership to do some “future-gazing,” in preparation for the challenges that will come in the next twelve months. This is not so much an...
View Article321. If you want better decisions, plan better meetings.
Board leaders often lament the challenges they face in helping their board members reach good decisions in a timely way. And if the primary purpose of church boards is to make decisions to advance the...
View Article323. A New “Black Swan” Event — a Good Learning Opportunity for a Church Board.
In blog article 40. ‘Black Swans’ In the Board Room I explained this term and how it relates to the operations of a church board. In the last two months the world has encountered another ‘black swan’...
View Article325. Planning Beyond a Crisis.
In my part of the world it is now seven weeks since governments imposed stringent restrictions to try and deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Whether these actions have in fact produced the desired...
View Article327. Institutional Paralysis in Time of Crisis
Animals and humans when facing critical danger must decide whether flight or fight would be the best response. However, sometimes they get paralyzed in the moments of decision and they lose the...
View Article329. Who’s Responsible for Discerning a New, Post-Covid 19 Vision for your...
For many Christian non-profit organizations and their leaders, including board chairs and board members, the last ten months of pandemic-disrupted operations have generated and continue to generate...
View Article330. When Policy Confronts an Unforeseen Situation.
I do believe that boards within medium and large-size churches should operate within a policy governance model. This model can also be helpful for boards in smaller churches. However, no matter how...
View Article331. A Fresh Look at Leadership Performance Evaluation
Recently BoardSource made available a resource entitled “How to Conduct a Chief Executive Performance Assessment in 10 Steps” (https://boardsource.org/conduct-ceo-performance-assessment/). This...
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