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Engaged & Resilient: Network Boards

Engaged & Resilient: Network Boards. NCHN Conference Mary Kay Chess, PhD April , 2012. Agenda for Today. Defining Boards as High Performing Teams Board Structures Supporting Engagement & Resiliency Tools for High Performing Boards: Stickiness.

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Engaged & Resilient: Network Boards

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  1. Engaged & Resilient: Network Boards NCHN Conference Mary Kay Chess, PhD April, 2012

  2. Agenda for Today Defining Boards as High Performing Teams Board Structures Supporting Engagement & Resiliency Tools for High Performing Boards: Stickiness

  3. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Apple’s THINK DIFFERENT commercial, 1997.

  4. Network Board Frames Define and Determine Focus of this Conversation.

  5. Network Board Framework

  6. 1. Can Network Boards be HP Teams? What is the definition of a high performing team? What are the characteristics?

  7. Features of a HP Team - BGI • HP Team: 5 -12 individuals with… • Purpose & Direction: Compelling • Leadership: Shared • Structure: Just-enough • Engagement: Full & Curious • Differences: Encouraged • Output: Unexpected Learning & Rule #6 • Relationships: Strengthened • Outcome: ROI

  8. Team Performance Curve High-Performing Team Real Team Performance Impact Working Group Potential Team Pseudo-Team adapted from the ideas of Katzenbach and Smith Team Effectiveness

  9. High Performance Teams: Deliver Commit Results Trust Conflict- Yes Prefer-ences

  10. Why bother with Preferences… • Recognize fundamental variations in the ways membersall approach the board • How they are energized • How theyperceive & collect data • How theymake decisions • How theyorganize our lives • Develop clearer understanding of self in relation to others on the board • Leverage differences for board/team learning and performance

  11. Team Agreements: Innovate • Individual & Collective Accountability • We will support each other strategically to learn and achieve our boardgoals • We will help each other to realize our full potential • Respect: Possibility & Ambiguity • We will respect each others’ confusion • We will create an environment of trust so creativity is encouraged • Work Together to Deliver, Celebrate & Evaluate • We will encourage, support and be accountable to each other • We will help respectively resolve whatever confusion is in the room

  12. 2. Network Board Structures Rate Board Efficiently Rate Board Energy Rate Board Communication Rate Board Engagement

  13. Member: Time & Commitment Network Their Board

  14. Rate: 1(poor) & 5(outstanding)

  15. Human Mapping: Data

  16. Time: (10 minute slots)

  17. Communication Builds Effective Teams: Face-to-Face

  18. Use of Advisors & Meetings at Meetings.

  19. Board Change: A Destination, and maybe, a Roadmap.

  20. 3. Tools for Network Boards Stickiness for High Performance

  21. Thank You! Marykaychess@comcast.net 360.331.3605

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