This book draws on author Doug Eadie's work with hundreds of boards to provide detailed, hands-on guidance for building and managing a board-superintendent partnership that is close, positive, productive, and enduring. Eadie describes how the superintendent can wear the "chief partnership officer" hat while leading and managing a board-superintendent partnership program. Special attention is paid to such critical partnership building tools such as:
· Empowering the board
· Building board member ownership of their governing work
· Making governing work easier and more fun
· Involving senior administrators in providing executive support to the board
For superintendents, school board members, and school system senior administrators.
Autorentext
Doug Eadie, President & CEO of Doug Eadie & Company, has over the past 30 years helped over 500 public and nonprofit organizations, including many school boards and superintendents, to build their boards' capacity do high-impact governing work and to develop rock-solid board-superintendent working relationships. Doug is the author of 21 books in addition to Building a High-Impact Board-Superintendent Partnership, including Governing at the Top and Five Habits of High-Impact School Boards, and of over 100 articles on board and chief executive leadership and board-chief executive relations. He administers and writes for a popular blog for public school leaders, www.boardsavvysuperintendent.com. Before founding Doug Eadie & Company, Doug served in a number of senior executive positions in the nonprofit sector and as a Peace Corps teacher in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for three years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Doug was awarded the master of science in management degree by the Weatherhead School of Case Western Reserve University.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface: The Partnership Imperative
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Key 1 Put Partnership at the Top of Your List
Chapter 5 Key 2 Specialize in Governing "Business"
Chapter 6 Key 3 Empower Your Board
Chapter 7 Key 4 Turn Board Members into Owners
Chapter 8 Key 5 Spice Up the Governing Stew
Chapter 9 Key 6 Get Your Senior Administrators on Board
Chapter 10 Key 7 Keep Expectations in Sync
Chapter 11 Key 8 Stay on the High-Growth Path
Chapter 12 About the Author