Workshops for Boards
OPTIMAL SCHOOL GOVERNANCE offers an extensive range of workshop sessions that are tailored to the individual and distinctive characteristics of each school board.
Workshops can provide orientation for new trustees, regular training for trustees of highly effective boards to fine-tune and ensure continuing ‘best practice’, and help can also be provided to support boards that are functioning sub-optimally, and even boards that are in crisis.
Among the popular (and often necessary) topics for workshops with school boards and heads are the following:
•Board leadership
•Governance vs Management
•Managing risk
•Directing and managing change
•Dysfunctional boards
•Healthy boards
•Staying focussed in a crisis
•Preparing for a future that embraces disruptive change
•The Board-Head relationship
•Board composition and succession
•Board meetings and dynamics
•Board policies
•Board engagement with the faculty, staff, alumni, parents and the community
•Ethos (the mission, school policies, environmental sustainability)
•Strategic thinking and visioning
•Board duties (legal compliance, finances and resources, risk management, reputation)
•Oversight of the school (engagement, program oversight, demographics)
•Perspectives on Christian leadership
•Evaluating the board
•Evaluating trustees’ performance
Our workshops consistently receive high ratings and positive feedback. For details of feedback we receive from school boards, click HERE.
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