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Board Chair Boot Camp
AGB National Foundation Leadership Forum
Los Angeles, CAJanuary 26, 2014
Theresa Popp Braun – Chair, Bowling Green State University Foundation
James L. Lanier – Senior Fellow and Consultant, AGB
[email protected] (202) 580 – 5194
1. Setting the Stage
2. So, You Are the New Chair ?
3. Highly Effective Chairs Focus on Results
4. Building and Growing a High Performing Board
5. Trusting Relationships2
Boot Camp Agenda
6. Sticky Issues
7. The Bowling Green University Foundation Board Case
8. The View from Across the Street
– A President’s Perspective
9. Leaders Panel – Tying It All Together
10. Next Steps for Chair3
Boot Camp Agenda, Cont.
Current Contexts
• Stagnate State Funding and Contracting Federal Support• Concerns about Increasing Prices and Student Debt • Questions about the Fundamental Value of Higher
Education• Increasing Complexity of Asset Management and
Budgetary Challenges• Competitive Fundraising Environment• Institution and Foundation Leadership Transitions• Scrutiny of Governance Practices and Demands for
Accountability
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So You Are the (7 Minutes)
New Board Chair ???
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1. Why Are You So Passionately Connected to Your Institution ?
2. What Are Your Top 2 Priorities as Chair to Address this Year ?
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The Why and What Questions ? (10 minutes)
Finding True North
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Highly Effective
Chairs Focus On Results !!! The Significant Few
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Do You Have Written (8 Minutes)
Expectations for Your Chair?
1. Describe Characteristics Ideal Chairs You’ve Known 2. Write Three Expectations
for Your First Year as Chair
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Build a Culture of Performance and Achievement
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Structure
BehaviorProcess
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Building and Growing High Performing Boards
The Governance Committee
Responsibilities: Membership Criteria Expectations Ideal Board Profile Watch List Orientation Build Capacity
Assessment Recognition Best Practices
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Recruit Champions
Keep Them
Growing
Orientation
• Goal – Equip New Members for Success from Their First Meeting
• Runs for a Cycle of Several Meetings• About Half the Focus is on the Institution • Meet and Talk with Multiple Leaders• Build a Mentor Group • Assess the Process Annually
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Make Meetings Meaningful and
Engaging
A Primary Responsibility of the Chair !
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1. Avoid Boring Members to Death
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2. Clearly Define the Role of the Board
3. Consent Agenda
3. Each Meeting Should Inform, Engage, Inspire and Insure Adherence to Board
Responsibilities
4. Add Fun and Significance
a. Tell Stories of the Impact and Meaning of F-R
b. Leadership Frames – Boman and Deal
c. “Perception Becomes Your Truth”
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Making Meetings Meaningful
Frames of Leadership
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Structural Human Relations
Political Symbolic
Understand What Board Members Want
To Feel and See Results -
To Make a Difference To Work With People Who Share
Their Passion Use Their Time Wisely Spend Time with Other Members
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5. Build Time for Dialog and Engagement
6. High Functioning Committees – Written Charge, Annual Priorities, Ex. Summaries of Meet.
7. Develop Specific Objectives for Each Meeting
* Let Board Select Annual Priorities for Meetings
* Consider Annual Theme Meetings
8. Compose a Specific, Timed Agenda for Each Meeting and Distribute it with Related Materials Well in Advance
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Making Meetings Meaningful, Cont.
9. Meet in Different Places with Different Set-ups
10. Stick to the Agenda
11. Establish and Adhere to Meeting Start and Stop Times (Avoid Chit-Chat)
12. Make Personal Assignments
13. Assess the Effectiveness of each Meeting and Identify Future Agenda Items at the
End of Each Meeting
14. Short Executive Session at End of Each Meeting
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Making Meetings Meaningful, Cont.
Mission or Vision Statement: (Written at Top)
1. Chair Welcome and Outlines Goals
2. Donor Story – (“Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing”)(5 to 10 min)
3. Institutional President’s Report/Conversation (20 min)
4. Celebrate a Campus “Impact” Story (5 – 10 min)
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Sample Meeting Agenda(Consent Agenda - Shared Two Weeks in Advance)
Start with Most Important Items First
5. Official Business – (Financial – Strategic – Operational) Votes and Discussion – (10 to 30 min)
6. Strategic Issue Discussion – (15 to 30 min)
7. Consent Items – Minutes, Committee Reports, Other Routine Items (10 -15 min)
8. Other Business, Meeting Assessment, Board Development, New Agenda Topics,
Assessment (10 – 15 min)
9. Brief Executive Meeting (5 – 10 min)26
Sample Meeting Agenda, Cont,(Consent Agenda - Shared Two Weeks in Advance)
1. “Mission Philanthropy” is Job One !2. Bold Aspirations Replace Being “Good Enough.”2. Actual Strategies Trump Lengthy Strategic Plans.3. Financial Strength and Productivity, Openness and Donor Stewardship Are “Really Big Deals.”4. Transparency and Collaboration Between the
Institution and the Foundation are Non – Negotiable.
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Chair’s Excellence Check-List
5. Metrics and Modeling Replace Anecdotes for the “Best ROI” from Staff and Projects.
7. Board Engagement and Performance Is Prized Over Attendance.
9. Debate Displaces Deference (Committee and Bd.).10. Self-Evaluation and Assessments Are Expected.11. Transformative Gifts Focus Supplants 100 %
Giving.
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Chair’s Excellence Check-List , Cont.
Understand Why Donors Give
• Belief in Institutional Mission or a Particular Project
• Financial Stability• Relationship to a Principal• Someone Ask Them
They Keep Giving Because Someone Cares for Them !!!
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Giving to Higher Education 1975 - 2010
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010$0.00
$5.00
$10.00
$15.00
$20.00
$25.00
$30.00
$2.41$4.23
$7.40$9.80
$12.75
$23.20$25.60
$27.33
(in billions)
Growth of Public Higher Ed Fundraising
Beyond “Margin of Excellence”
As a Result of:• Continued Decline in State Appropriations• Tuition Caps and Concerns About Student Access and
Debt• Increasingly Competitive Nature of Higher Education
Institutions Are Placing:• Increasing Reliance on Foundations for Fund-Raising,
Real Property and Entrepreneurial Activities; and
• More Requests for Operating and Capital Projects
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Working with CEO
• Establish a Clear Understanding about Communications
• Have a Regular Time for Conversations and Updates:
• “Good and Bad”• No Surprises Rule • Get in Front of Issues
• Hold Confidences• What Have You Found that Works?
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• Thoughtful MOU Process Maps and Defines Respective Roles and Responsibilities
• Collaboratively Develop Business Practices and Policies
• Orientation for New Institution and Foundation Board Members (Common Elements)
• Overlapping Board Memberships and Joint Gatherings
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Supporting a Strong Institutional - Foundation Partnership
Supporting a Strong Institutional - Foundation Partnership, cont.
• Alignment of Institution and Foundation Planning
• Periodic Meetings: Board Chair and Institutional President, and Foundation Chair and CEO
• Regular Reciprocal Reporting• Accountability to Constituents• Rule of No Surprises
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• Personal or Political Conflicts Within the Board or Institution
• Rogue or Distracting Individuals• Social Risk• Structure Over Culture• Strategic Planning Over Strategic Thinking• Philanthropy Over Governance
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Sticky Issues for Chairs
• Controlling CEO• Lack of Time or Commitment• Lack of Clarity About the Chair’s Role
and Responsibilities (No Benchmarks)
• Lack of Formal Preparation or Orientation
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Sticky Issues for Chairs
• Heightened Standards of Accountability for all Governing Boards
• Budgetary Challenges• Shifting Compact Between States and
Institutions• Who Owns the Money ???• Open Records and Meetings• Challenges Posed by Entrepreneurial Donors• Leadership Transitions
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Sticky Issues for Institutions and Foundations
• Perception of Secrecy• Internal Controls and Transparency• Use of Unrestricted Funds• Compensation of and Expenditures by
Institution President• Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Ventures• Compliance with Donor Intent• Donor Clearance and Control
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Common Perceptual Issues and Challenges for Foundations
Additional Conversational
and
Reference Slides
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Board Chair Expectations
Written expectations form the basis for the chair’s orientation and for periodic assessments of performance.
• *Acting as a Liaison Between the Foundation CEO and the Board (Interdependent)
• *Supporting and Advising the CEO, and Leading the Performance Assessment and
Compensation Process for the CEO (as Applicable Within Each Institution)
• *Serving as a Liaison with Institutional Leaders Other Leadership Groups
* Critical Roles for Chairs41
Board Chair Expectations, cont.
• *Planning Meeting Agendas with the CEO and Executive Committee
• Appointing Committee Chairs and Members• *Making Sure the Work of the Committees
Flow From and Support the Goals, Objectives and Priorities Defined by the Board (On Time and Reports Shared)
• Communicating Expectations and Responsibilities to Board Members, Committee Chairs, and Other Leadership Groups
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• *Working with the Governance Committee and Leading the Orientation Process
• Working With the CEO to Plan Retreats and Board Education Programs
• Attending Other Meetings and Events Representing the Foundation
• *Leading the Foundation's Fund-Raising Programs Through Personal Philanthropy and Advocacy
• Advocating on Behalf of the Foundation’s Mission and the Institution’s Vision
Board Chair’s Expectations, cont.
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Private Support for Public Higher Education
• Morrill Act of 1862: Provision of Annual Appropriations to Land-Grant Institutions Diminished the Need for Them to Seek Private Support
• Prior to the 1980s Public Advancement Efforts Were Inconsistent and Poorly Coordinated
• Since the 1980s State Appropriations Have Failed to Keep Pace with Escalating Costs
(Core Story -- Margin of Excellence)
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Private Support for Public Higher Education, Cont.
• Institutions Are Increasingly Relying on Tuition, Research Overhead, Sales and Services (Auxiliaries), and Fund- Raising
• Today’s Policy Question -- Public Good or Private Good
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General Foundation Functions
• Gift Repository• Asset Management• Fundraising • Stewardship• Advocacy• Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Ventures• Advisory and Consultative Roles
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