Recruiting and Retaining Effective Board Members, Morristown

Facilitated by Laura Otten Ph.D.

It’s an ongoing challenge to find qualified Board members who bring the appropriate skills, temperament, expectations, and passion to the organization they serve. Once you have strong board members, how do you keep them motivated and content? This full-day workshop will provide practical tools to help design a culture of board assessment and development that fuels healthy organizations. Participants will learn how to monitor and build their boards’ profiles in terms of skill, experience, expertise, and demographics; explore strategies to recruit new board candidates; develop effective board member orientation; manage officer and committee chair succession and board performance appraisals; and run productive meetings.

Each participating nonprofit organization can bring a team of up to 3 people which includes the Executive Director (or comparable staff) and Board Chair (or Vice Chair). We recommend bringing a total of two board members since this will be the team responsible for bringing the learning back to the full board.