Love Your Board!: The Executive Directors' Guide to Discovering the Sources of Nonprofit Board Troubles and What to Do About Them

Is your nonprofit board underperforming? Is your board a burden rather than a strategic asset? Does your board appear to be surviving rather than thriving?What if you could diagnose and treat every one of your board challenges rather than waste time wondering how to change the dynamics at your next meeting? What would it mean to have a dynamic board fulfilling its potential to advance your mission? Even better: imagine what it would be like to love your board! Mary Hilands decades in the trenches informs every common-sense solution she recommends for your most angst-inducing board dilemmas. Youll feel as if you have an experienced coach at your side spurring you on to tackle the most persistent issues. Love Your Board! is brimming with tough love and a hearty dose of empathy for executive directors who need real-life answers. Read this book and youll: Discover your board operates within three dimensions and how within each you can turn board problems into board performance. Have new insights about the people and the process aspects of those three dimensions: board capacity connections and culture. Understand the critical success factors needed for your board to improve. Learn how to navigate board member personalities and strengthen the critical board chair/CEO relationship. Gain insider knowledge about serious issues that limit your boards potential. Learn evidence-based practices that work for addressing those challenges. Restore your energy and catalyze your board with the practices board members need to create real change. Begin to love your board! And when you purchase Love Your Board! you will have access to tools and resources valued at $2000! The Chapters: Chapter One: How Do Boards Get Better?Chapter Two: Capacity: People Chapter Three: Capacity: Process Chapter Four: Connection: People Chapter Five: Connection: Process Chapter Six: Culture: People and Process Chapter Seven: Bringing It All Together What Others Are Saying: Reading this wonderfully supportive practical and reflective book will give you the tools you need to help your board overcome its deficiencies and unlock its potential to lead your nonprofit organization brilliantly. Love Your Board! is a must-read for all nonprofit executives no matter how long in your leadership role. Christine Duncan CEO YWCA Monterey CountyLove your board? Really? Is it possible? It sure is. Just ask Mary Hiland. In this remarkable book Mary brings her wealth of experience and practical insights to a very real problem thats vexed nearly every executive director: how to work with your board. Matt Hugg President and Founder Nonprofit.Courses I loved this book! It is easy to follow warm and congenial. It is evidence-based and the examples illustrate and move the reader through the processes Mary recommends. The tree metaphor made the book feel like the advice and information given is organic and could become part of the fabric of an organization. I highly recommend it to all executive directors. Maria Nicolacoudis CEO Hearts & Minds Activity Center