The job
Your job is to help the board make good decisions. Read the packet, ask questions, show up, and follow through on what you say yes to. You do not need to have every answer in your first year.
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Leadership Plays for every role
- Play 13: Running a committee that gets things doneA clear charge, a short meeting, and an owner for every task.
- Play 14: Handling conflict on the boardSeparate the issue from the person, and settle it before it splits the board.
- Play 15: Recruiting your replacementFind, invite, and prepare the person who takes your seat, so the role does not die with your term.
- Play 16: Managing volunteers who have other jobsSmall asks, clear deadlines, and thanks in public.
- Play 17: Saying no without losing the roomProtect the board's time and budget without making enemies.
- Play 18: Working with staff or an AMCClear lines between what the board decides and what staff runs.