Why do good people keep making the same mistakes?
Benefits of program: Participants will understand the key criteria for board effectiveness and be able to analyze their own board functions from this perspective. The result will be a more effective board with a clearly defined focus on community development, higher level planning and allocation of resources and regular evaluation of programs and services. The board will also have a higher profile in the community and recruit new members based on identified needs.
Key topics: - If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.
- How can we evaluate our CEO when we have no standards or objectives?
- Are there really enough of us to justify confused roles and relationships?
- Why bother planning if we can’t move the community forward?
- There is the plan, but then there is the budget: which (and who) has the power?
- Great plan! But how do we know when we are successful?
- Who needs rules for ethics and integrity? We’re all honest here!
- Nobody knows who we are or how to contact us. Great! No complaints!
- Poor us. No one wants the job so I’ll just have to do another term!
- Assess Board performance? But we’re all volunteers!
Who Should Participate This program will appeal to trustees, directors, chief executive officers and others concerned with effective governance. Librarians and other staff serving on other public boards will also find the program of value.
Ken Haycock Currently, Dr. Haycock is a Professor and the Director of the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University – the largest in the world. Prior to 2006, he held similar roles at the School of Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia for several years, and preceding that, he held numerous positions in school boards and schools.
In the public sector, Ken has been a public library trustee, elected school board trustee and chair, and a municipal councilor.
He has been president of several national and international professional associations; received numerous research and distinguished service awards; and has been honoured by Phi Delta Kappa as one of North America’s leading educators.
Ken holds graduate degrees in Education, Library and Information Studies, and Business Administration.
