Episode 007: Are you feeling the LOVE from your board chair?
A great relationship with your board chair can make all the difference.
For his new book Better Together: How Top Nonprofit CEOs and Board Chairs Get Happy, Fall in Love and Change Their World author, speaker, coach and consultant John M. Fulwider, Ph.D. interviewed Nonprofit Chief Executives and their Board Chairs. His finding? There is no single factor more important to an organization’s success than the relationship between the top staff position and the chair of the board.
Effective partnerships can have a transformational impact upon the organization that can be felt for years hence. Dysfunctional relationships, on the other hand, can lock nonprofit leaders into a cycle of mutual agony resulting in mediocre–or worse–organizational performance.
The good news is that effective partnerships can be built, and Better Together offers a blueprint for doing just that. John is kind enough to offer a preview with us.
To learn more about John, check out his site JohnFulwider.com or follow him on Twitter @JohnMFulwider.
In this episode, John shares:
The reasons your Board Chair is more nervous about the relationship than you.
The seductively simple secret to positioning yourself for a great relationship with your chair.
Questions you can ask to draw your Board Chair’s aspirations into the open.
The most common mistake he sees Nonprofit Executives make: failing to treat the board as an asset.
His habit for success: asking for help.
His book recommendation: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
His advice for Nonprofit Executives just starting out: gather a personal board of directors comprised of mentors, confidants, and counselors.
We also revisited the importance of building a great team as discussed in Episode
Listen for John’s Magic Secret at 29:15.
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Better Together: How Top Nonprofit CEOs and Board Chairs Get Happy, Fall in Love and Change Their World by John M. Fulwider, Ph.D.
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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