Introductory Workshops

Consistently rated by its participants as “excellent” and “best-ever on the topic, “Mastering the Board Game™” gives participants a comprehensive new look at how boards can become highly effective leadership teams.

Mastering the Board Game is offered either as a public workshop or as a customized program for individual boards.

This public workshop has been successfully presented by trade associations, community leadership programs, colleges and universities, chambers of commerce, and other organizations committed to elevating board effectiveness in a given community or industry. The customized format provides the most effective method to begin to explore current governance practices and the impact Policy Governance principles can have.

Our preparation for the customized workshop includes a full review of the bylaws, agendas, minutes and structure of our client’s organization. We also utilize our B.A.S.E.™ (Board Assessment of Structural Effectiveness) Survey, through which we garner board members’ perspectives regarding current activities and practices. This total assessment enables us to focus on the issues of greatest concern to board members and demonstrate how the implementation of sound governance practices would specifically address those topics.

These introductory workshops can be presented in full-day or half-day formats.

We have also condensed our Mastering the Board Game into a two-hour workshop — Defining Board/Staff Roles, Relationships, and Leadership — and have made it available as a stand-alone module for broader group use as well. This presentation is also highly rated by attendees at conferences and conventions.

Expanded Two-Day Workshop

Many participants in our one-day program have requested a more advanced session, with more interactive application of the concepts explored. In response, we developed a new, two-day version of the “Mastering the Board Game” public seminar. This workshop expands on the work done in the one-day session and provides greater focus and detail on policymaking, fiscal oversight and performance monitoring.

In this two-day model, Part I (“An Introduction to Policy Governance”) provides a comprehensive look at board effectiveness, roles, authority and accountability.

Part II (“Using Policy Governance to Make Decisions and Solve Problems”) gives participants a highly interactive framework in which to apply the concepts presented in Part I, including a series of mock-board exercises. We recommend that only those who’ve attended Part I, or are otherwise familiar with governance principles, participate in Part II.

Workshop pricing is provided upon request.