Board Governance Training in Long Beach--October 4, 2007

Welcome back!

"Board Leadership - Governance Excellence" is the 3-hour workshop that I am presenting at the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership on Thursday, October 4, 2007; 3 PM until 6 PM.

Your participation is welcomed and encouraged. There is a rather nominal fee of $30 for LBNP members and $45 for “not-yet-members for the workshop and you need to pre-register at the lbnp.org.

This is what the workshop is about:

How can you attract, motivate and retain good board members? Give them the right job and the right tools. Governance is the highest level of organizational leadership. The role of governance needs to lead with values and vision, and empower both board and staff, and practice the strategic ability to lead leaders. The board’s role is servant leadership. Participants in this workshop – board members and staff leaders will:

• Access value for leadership through governance with Policy Governance® model
• Focus contributions to fulfill their role as servant leaders and avoid meddling or “rubber-stamping”
• Define roles of management and board distinct from one another
• Identify a conceptually complete system of governance that ensures organizational results on behalf of the moral ownership

This workshop will not be a rehash of information that you have heard before and will not be a lot of stories about how boards have failed to do their job. It will provide an introduction to a comprehensive system of board governance that when used well will ensure that the board accomplishes its job outputs, keeps the organization on track with its fiduciary responsibility and makes a difference in the world.

The Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership is located at 3635 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90807; (562) 290-0018

I am giving a shorter version of this workshop in St. Louis, MO on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Please contact me for further information. The workshop is also available for organizations and their boards of directors in 90-minute, 3-hours, and all day formats. The training is also included as part of a complete package of board development services that in addition to training includes technical assistance to define the boards role, the writing of board level policies, monitoring of organizational activities and production of results.

For more information, check out our capacitypartnership.com and contact me gpeterson [at] capacitypartnership [dot] com.

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Christian Community Development Association Conference

. . . is coming up October 10-14, 2007 in St. Louis, MO. For more information and registration click here.

I am giving a workshop on board governance on Saturday afternoon.

I felt a realy loud noise a few mintues ago . . .

. . . and it just occurred to me what it was:

Atlantis' return from NASA's first manned flight of the year was marked by its trademark twin sonic booms that were heard from San Diego to Los Angeles. After deploying its parachute, the shuttle came to rest on the concrete runway under mostly sunny skies.

--LA Times

From Trinidad and Tobago's Newday

PRISONS Commissioner John Rougier yesterday called on fathers, both in and out of prison, to take fatherhood seriously and act responsibly, saying that this was integral to making Trinidad and Tobago a “good, fearless and happy” place.

He was speaking at the Prison Fellowship of Trinidad and Tobago’s (PFTT) Father’s Day activities organised for inmates at the Maximum Security Prison

I am wondering if this is the gentleman that we met at the Men's Maximum Security Prison?

Annual Conference of CCDA October 10-14, 2007

The Christian Community Development Association will have its annual conference in St. Louis, MO, October 10-14, 2007 at the Adam's Mark Hotel. I plan to do a workshop on board governance process, defining the work of the board of directors as articulation of organizational ends, and proscription of unacceptable situations and circumstances; (2) linkage to moral ownership, and (3) organizational accountability.

I hope to see someone from Trinidad at the conference. Let's talk about this soon.

American Church on AIDS

"Every church should be engaged in the war against AIDS."

Rev. Bill Hybells, Willow Creek Community Church

"This is the greatest opportunity for the Church to be the Church and meet hurting, suffering people at their point of need."

Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church

African Saying

"When a snake comes into the house, we do not stop to ask where the snake came from before we kill the snake."

--from The Skeptic's guide to the Global AIDS Crisis