How to Spend Your Board’s Time
Most boards spend too much time on reports and not enough on strategic leadership. A guide to allocating meeting time across governance, discernment, and accountability.
Resource topics: Board & Governance
3 Ways to Make Board Meetings Less Excruciating
Three concrete changes boards can make to improve meeting culture and effectiveness: agenda design, facilitation, and getting the board’s proper role right.
Four Questions to Ask before Every Meeting
Diagnostic questions that meeting leaders should ask before any board or committee meeting — consistently applied, they dramatically improve focus and effectiveness.
Clear Delegation
Effective delegation requires three elements: authority, guidance, and accountability — not just trust alone. Boards, clergy, and volunteers all delegate in chains.
How to Delegate So Things Get Done
Distinguishes between assigning tasks and truly delegating authority. How to give clear expectations, appropriate authority, and accountability to staff and volunteers.
How to Give Away Your Power
Leaders who deliberately distribute power to staff, volunteers, and community members gain more influence and build stronger organizations.
Know-how and Decide-what
Experts decide how, but everyone should have a voice in deciding what the congregation aims to accomplish. Mixing these roles creates strategic dysfunction.
What Buck Stops Where?
Addresses the common confusion about who is ultimately responsible for what — boards, clergy, or staff — and how to stop the buck-passing that leads to governance failures.
What Bylaws Should and Should Not Say
Most bylaws contain too much operational advice and not enough about governance structure — who holds power, how leaders are chosen, how accountability works.
Governance and Ministry: Why Worry?
Makes the case for why leaders should care about governance — it is not bureaucracy but a way of enabling ministry and mission. An introduction to the G&M framework.