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August 25, 2020 By Amanda Kaiser

Get Creative With the Roles Your Association’s Board Can Play

Sometimes boards can get stuck in a rut, playing just one role.

The role might be:

  • Doer
  • Dictator
  • Doormat

None of these roles leverages the full opportunity of what boards can do. Executive directors and CEO’s can help their boards learn to slide from one beneficial role to another.

  • Board members may be able to rally members during times of change.
  • Your board can support and even cheerlead you through necessary but unpopular decisions.
  • Boards can help you see things you wouldn’t see otherwise and look at the world through a different lens.
  • The collective brainpower of boards can help you identify all the tradeoffs while considering big strategic problems.

Likely change will happen at a scale, and with a swiftness, we have not witnessed before. An agile and well-intentioned board can help staff be successful.

Related:

  • Association response to big, hairy problems
  • Model the change you want in your association
  • Soon it will be time for association leaders to envision the future

Filed Under: Association Leadership Tagged With: association board, association change, association leadership, board culture, board members, collaboration, collaborative, forward thinking, innovation culture

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