Description
Legal Webinar: Beyond a Semi-Functional Board (2025)
WEBINAR ORIGINALLY PRESENTED ON MAY 14, 2025
Do you have a rockstar board? Or does it limp along performing the minimum necessary to keep the organization going? Driven by the CEO because no one on the board wants to be responsible for leadership.
Most boards are somewhere in between. Functional perhaps, but not fully functional – more what you would call semi-functional.
This webinar recording will help you get beyond a semi-functional board. By acting intentionally at every step of the governance process, you can improve your organization’s capacity, resilience, and effectiveness.
We will start with understanding whose organization it is and the org’s position on the life cycle of organizations. From there, we’ll get into:
- How do you build a board for what you need?
- Should you have an orientation for all new members? And a refresher for others?
- Do the directors understand the responsibilities of the board? (We’ll have a short but specific list to consider.)
- Do they understand their own responsibilities, and how their personal responsibilities differ from the board responsibilities? Do they enjoy serving on the board? How can you get the best from the most?
- Have they built in personal protections from liability? Avoided doing the things that are absolutely prohibited? Done the things that are absolutely required?
- Do they understand how the conduct of board meetings can make a difference?
- Is adopting a consent agenda enough?
- Do they understand the role of committees? And advisory committees?
- Do they know how to improve the partnership with the CEO?
This recording covers these topics and more, pointing out subtleties that can make a difference. We don’t promise that you will develop a rockstar board, but we do think we can help you move toward a more fully functional board to improve the organization.
This webinar was presented by nonprofit attorney Don Kramer and PANO Standards for Excellence Director Ashley Suhler Tobin.
Once you have purchased this webinar, you will be emailed the link and password to access the video, along with a link to download any supporting materials (e.g., copy of the PowerPoint, handouts, etc.). This email will be sent to the address that you list when you check out. If you have any questions, please email info@pano.org or call PANO’s main business line at 717-236-8584.
