A Vocabulary Test for Administrators and Board Members

1. A Vocabulary Test for Administrators and Board Members Derek J. Keenan, Ed.D. VP, Academic Affairs derek_keenan@acsi.org

2. Perceptions are not negotiable • Perceptions are contextual to communication • Perceptions are the linchpins to which most decisions are attached

3. Governance • The process and manner by which authority and power are utilized to direct and control the activities of an organization.

4. Involvement • The entanglements by individuals and groups in the workings of an organization or one or more of its component parts.

5. Operations (Day to Day) • The ongoing, periodic activities, processes, and normative activities of an organization.

6. Policy • The guiding, governing and managing statements of principle established by the constituted authority to direct the organization.

7. Leadership • “A dynamic process in which woman and men with God-given capacity influence others to accomplish the purposes of the organization.” • Robert Clinton • The Making of a Leader

8. Management • “Working with and through individuals and groups to accomplish organizational goals.” • Hersey/Blanchard • Management of Organizational Behavior

9. Qualifications • A defined set of attributes, which have been selected by an organization as a threshold for each of the various positions, needed to fulfill the goals of the organization.

10. Evaluation • The process of assessment, usually including summary conclusions, of individual or group performance on the component tasks which have been assigned within the organization.

11. Purpose • The reason that the organization exists.

12. Decision Making • The rendering of a judgment, drawing of a conclusion, the making up of one’s mind, or settling on a course of action within the scope of individual or corporate responsibility.

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