Description
Standards for Excellence 3.0
08 Leadership & Governance Part 2: The Board and Executive Partnership
8.1: Choosing the Executive Director
8.1.1: Hiring the Executive Director
8.1.2: Determining the Executive Director compensation
8.1.3: Executive Directors and an Employment Contract and/or an Offer Letter
8.1.4: Minding equity: gender and ethnicity dynamics
8.2: Board and Executive Working Together
8.2.1: Supporting the Executive Director
8.2.2: Evaluating the Executive Director
8.2.3: Executive roles and responsibilities
8.2.4: Conducting an evaluation process through a 360
8.2.5: The Executive’s support of the Board
8.3: Executive Transitions
8.3.1: Celebrating the Exiting Executive
8.3.2: Considering the next Executive
8.3.3: Establishing expectations for the next Executive (before the search)
8.3.4: Conducting an Executive search
8.4: Terminating or Removing a Executive Director
8.4.1: Process for termination (see Educational Packet 16a)
8.4.2: Considerations for board involvement in management affairs following a termination of the Executive
8.5: In Partnership with a Founder
8.5.1: Thinking Beyond the Founder: Setting the Stage for an Organization that outlasts the Founder
8.5.2: Other Considerations between a Founder and Board
8.5.3: Negotiating a founder’s role on the board and/or as a paid staff member
8.6 Supporting the Board-Executive Partnership with Good Policies
8.6.1: Setting Policies
8.6.2: Additional policy considerations
8.7: The board’s relationship with other senior leaders and staff
Selected Resources for Board and Executive Partnerships
References
Board/CEO Relationship
Management vs. Governance
Executive Position Descriptions
Transitioning Executives
Executive Director Evaluation
Executive Director 360 Evaluation Resources
Terminating the CEO
Board Policies Resources
General Board Resources
Attachments:
Attachment 8A: Sample Executive Director Evaluation Process Resource Tool
Attachment 8B: Sample Position Description Nonprofit Executive Director/CEO
Attachment 8C: Celebrating an Exiting Executive A Template for an Event
Attachment 8D: List of Questions for Considering the Next Executive
Attachment 8E: Policies, Documents, Action Items that Need Board Approval
Attachment 8F: Sample Policy Review Schedule
