Product Description

Describes the fundamental responsibilities of the chairpersonof the board: to ensure the functioning of the board and the integrity of the board process. Offers invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #888736 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 24 pages

From the Inside Flap
This Carver Guide describes the fundamental role of the chairperson of the board—helping the board to lead the organization. This Carver Guide helps you develop your role as leader in this process, yet servant to the board as a body. Carver includes invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance. The Chairperson's Role as Servant-Leader to the Board show you how to:

Design the job of the board—including organizational results, operational control, time management, and staff relations
• Determine your role in decision making and establish boundaries as chairperson
• Develop the initial rules of conduct so the board can stay disciplined and on track
• Establish the appropriate number of officers for optimal performance
• Create a leadership position for yourself where the board shares the assumption of responsibility
• Plan for succession

From the Back Cover
This Carver Guide describes the fundamental role of the chairperson of the board—helping the board to lead the organization. This Carver Guide helps you develop your role as leader in this process, yet servant to the board as a body. Carver includes invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance. The Chairperson's Role as Servant-Leader to the Board show you how to:

• Design the job of the board—including organizational results, operational control, time management, and staff relations
  
• Determine your role in decision making and establish boundaries as chairperson
  
• Develop the initial rules of conduct so the board can stay disciplined and on track
  
• Establish the appropriate number of officers for optimal performance
  
• Create a leadership position for yourself where the board shares the assumption of responsibility
  
• Plan for succession

About the Author
JOHN CARVER is internationally known as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model and is the bestselling author of Boards That Make a Difference (1990). Dr. Carver has worked with boards in the U.S. and Canada and on four other continents for over twenty years. His clients have included the National Association of State Boards of Education, the National Ballet of Canada, the American Institute of Architects, the Pentagon Federal Credit Union and Lutheran World Relief. His ideas have been featured by the National League of Cities, the London Times, the Canadian Hospital Association, the American Society of Association Executives, Georgia Power company and many others.

Customer Reviews

Chairpersons Role As Servant Leader to the Board
Finally, Carver made simple!. John and Miriam Mayhew Carver, make the Policy Governance model understandable for the Chairperson in this short booklet. After using Carver's Boards That Make a Difference," for years, I have not found many volunteer board members who want to read his 240 page text. However, "Chairpersons Role As Servant Leader to the Board" is short enough (at 20+ pages) and simple enough for most board chairs to read on the way to meeting. If you use the Policy Governance based on Carver's model, I would highly recommend this (and the other 11 booklets in the series).

Chairpersons Role As Servant Leader to the Board
Finally, Carver made simple!. John and Miriam Mayhew Carver, make the Policy Governance model understandable for the Chairperson in this short booklet. After using Carver's Boards That Make a Difference," for years, I have not found many volunteer board members who want to read his 240 page text. However, "Chairpersons Role As Servant Leader to the Board" is short enough (at 20+ pages) and simple enough for most board chairs to read on the way to meeting. If you use the Policy Governance based on Carver's model, I would highly recommend this (and the other 11 booklets in the series).

Carver Guide Not worth the price
This tiny booklet is not worth the $14 price. There isn't sufficient help within to really make a difference although it has a very catchy title.