Mary Hiland

Broschiertes Buch

Love Your Board!

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

Beschreibung

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 Hiland's decades in the trenches informs every common-sense solution she recommends for your most angst-inducing board dilemmas. You'll 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 you'll: 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 board's 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 $2,000! 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 County Love 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 that's 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

Autor

Mary Hiland, PhD is a nonprofit board and leadership development consultant dedicated to assisting nonprofit executives and board members in unleashing their organizational and community impact potential. She works with nonprofit leaders to strengthen the executive/board partnership and develop the board as a powerful force for organizational and mission results. Mary is a coach and mentor for boards, individual board leaders, and executive directors. Mary has over forty years of experience in the nonprofit sector-twenty-six as an executive. Her executive experience began with a small nonprofit ($100,000 budget), which she grew by leading two nonprofit mergers into one of the largest nonprofits in the California Bay Area-with 530 staff and a budget of $25 million. Mary has been consulting since 2002, working with several hundred nonprofits, including associations and all-volunteer nonprofits. The focus of her consulting is board development and executive leadership. As a certified Strategic Restructuring Consultant, Mary has trained and consulted with over ninety nonprofits on mergers and strategic alliances, coaching and facilitating nonprofit leaders through all phases of the process. Mary understands a board's perspective first-hand, having chaired and served for eighteen years on several nonprofit boards. Mary is a speaker, published author, and researcher. She has presented at numerous conferences, conducts workshops, and is a business professor at DeAnza Community College. She is a contributing author to four books on nonprofit leadership and governance, including You and Your Nonprofit Board (2013) and Leading and Managing in the Social Sector: Introduction and Overview (2017). Mary has received numerous awards, including the Silicon Valley Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership Award, Tribute to Women in Industry Achievement Award, Woman of Achievement in Community Service, and the NSFRE Spirit of Philanthropy Award. Mary obtained her PhD designation in 2006, focusing on nonprofit leadership and governance, doing research on the board chair/executive relationship and effective boards. Mary has three master's degrees: social work, public administration, and organizational development. Mary is the founder and host of the podcast Inspired Nonprofit Leadership. Learn more about Mary by visiting her website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org/meet-mary/more-about-mary LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mary Hiland
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9781737182702
• ISBN-10: 173718270X
• Artikelnr.: 62121277