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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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What Should a Governing Board Be Good At?
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© 2007 Scott Maxwell, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Many people dread board meetings, and for good reason. Boards spend too much time passively receiving information and transacting routine business. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Some boards have interesting meetings, leaving board members happy their time and energy has been well used. How do they do it? There are some structural factors. The best boards tend to be fairly small—seven to nine people. They pay close attention to the nominating process, making sure that candidates are well informed about what the board needs and expects of its members. Your board may not be perfect in these ways, but it can still improve by cultivating certain skills. In the spirit of Sarai Rice’s articles, “What Should a Minister Be Good At? and What Should a Congregation Be Good At?, I offer a short list of things a governing board needs to be good at:
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