Instructor: Michael Daigneault

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

A two-day advanced training on complex governance issues and the role of the governance consultant for seasoned trainers and consultants.

Program Overview
Course Objectives
Who should attend
Approach
Registration and Fees
Program Overview

Consultants offering services to nonprofit boards need to share experiences with others engaged in similar work and to ponder challenging ideas about nonprofit leadership and organization dynamics. This training will focus on both key governance topics as well as the challenges faced by the individual as a governance consultant working with nonprofit organizations.

Among the topics covered in the program are:

* Drivers of change in nonprofit governance
* Emerging issues and trends
* Dealing with conflict on boards
* How to help boards work better and smarter
* Competencies of effective boards
* Thinking and planning strategically
* How to help boards manage change
* Ethics in governance
* Strengthening one's own consulting skills

Course Objectives

The curriculum of this professional development program is designed to serve two purposes:

1. to share insights and materials that BoardSource has developed during its work with hundreds of nonprofit boards and thousands of board and senior staff members, and
2. to promote peer interaction and sharing of information and experience brought by participants.

Who Should Attend

Registration is limited. Attendance is recommended for:

* Consultants, trainers, management assistance providers, directors of training, or field staff from national organizations who offer their services to nonprofit boards AND have been serving this role for at least 5 years.
* Graduates of at least one other BoardSource Practitioner Program (Critical Components of Effective Governance or Assessment of Governing Boards and Chief Executives).

Approach

Each course makes extensive use of case histories and small group work as well as group discussion. A binder of resource materials is included in the price of each course. Evening homework will be assigned.
Registration and Fees

Price per course includes tuition, materials, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. Accommodations are not included in the price. Participants are responsible for making their own flight and hotel reservations.

Registration includes the following publications:

* Meet Smarter
* Chief Executive Succession Planning
* The Nonprofit Board's Guide to Bylaws
* Transforming Board Structure
* Nonprofit Answer Book II

Early Bird Special - $775 until April 4th
Contact BoardSource

To learn more about this course, or our other professional development offerings, please e-mail workshops@boardsource.org or call 1-877-892-6273.