432: How to Work With a Board, with Denice Hinden

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Denice Hinden: Managance Consulting & Coaching Denice is the president of Managance Consulting & Coaching, a firm that helps transform organizations with provocative strategic planning and coaches leaders and leadership teams. She was lead researcher and co-designer of Executive Transition Management (ETM), a now widely used methodology for effectively supporting nonprofits through leadership transitions. Denice is the author of The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide: Revealing the Hidden Truths that Impact Performance* and Taking Leadership to the Next Level: A Year of Stimulating Essays to Discover More Joy in Leading & Inspiring Others* has a tremendous amount of experience helping leaders and boards find alignment and succeed. In this conversation, Denice and I discuss the purpose of a board and how leaders can build relationships with board members. We explore the importance of transparency, how to keep initiatives moving forward, and the practice of regularly providing context. Key Points Six purposes of a board: (1) set policy and direction, (2) monitor operations for compliance and mission, (3) represent the organization, (4) serve as strategy partners, (5) keep records for the organization, and (6) develop current and future leaders. Leaders who lean into full transparency with their boards will build relationships that weather difficult times. Be cautious of making assumptions about what board members want to know. When meeting one on one, communicate what has happened in conversations with other board members to help keep things moving forward. Connecting board members to context regularly will help them find movement, especially when the board is in a volunteer capacity. Resources Mentioned The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide: Revealing the Hidden Truths that Impact Performance* by Denice Hinden Taking Leadership to the Next Level: A Year of Stimulating Essays to Discover More Joy in Leading & Inspiring Others* by Denice Hinden Related Episodes How to Increase Your Conversational Intelligence, with Judith Glaser (episode 271) Executive Presence with Your Elevator Speech, with Tom Henschel (episode 316) How to Find Confidence in Conflict, with Kwame Christian (episode 380) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	You've just been invited to a meeting with your board of directors, maybe even for the first time.
0:05.0	Where do you start? In this episode, how to work with a board to help the organization succeed.
0:12.0	This is coaching for leaders episode
0:13.8	432. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. human potential. and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:33.0	Leaders aren't born.
0:34.7	They're made, and this weekly show
0:36.6	helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:38.6	through insightful conversations.
0:41.3	One area that many leaders, if not most leaders have not had any training on, is how to work with their board.
0:50.0	It is something that many of us realize at some point in our careers we do begin interacting with a board of directors and
0:58.6	Yet most of us have never received any kind of training in this or if we did it was someone
1:03.5	pulling us aside with a little more experience saying here's what to do.
1:06.6	Today we're going to get some insight on really some of the important
1:12.1	considerations of working effectively with the board and I'm pleased that we have someone who's really got a wonderful expertise in helping us to navigate this effectively.
1:21.0	I'm pleased to welcome to the show today,
1:23.0	Denise Hindon.
1:23.8	Denise is the president of Managence, consulting, and coaching,
1:27.6	a firm that helps transform organizations
1:30.1	with provocative strategic planning and coaches leaders and leadership teams.
1:35.1	She was lead researcher and co-designer of executive transition management, now a widely
1:40.4	used methodology for effectively supporting nonprofits through leadership transitions.
1:45.8	Denise is the author of the nonprofit organizational culture guide,
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