5 Ways to Turn Off Your Nonprofit Board Members

Here are the five very correctable ways that board members get turned off and sometimes ghost you in response.
When I do strategy work with boards, the work also almost always includes confidential board interviews. This video shares the top correctable things board members share.
Watch this video to improve your relationship with your board and conduct better board meetings.

Content:

0:00 You worked hard to recruit them, don’t turn them off.

0:15 When should you start your meetings?

1:00 How can you get more done in board meetings?

2:08 What about that person who always talks too much?

3:15 Are you asking your board to do meaningful work?

4:01 When a surprise is not a good thing.

5:20 More information

Related Resources:

Read: Guilty as Charged: Prove Your Board Supports Your Organization 

Watch: How to Recruit Stellar Board Members 

Watch: Executive Directors, Do You Know This Secret to Nonprofit Board Success? 

Karen’s Nonprofit CEO Library–Get answers. Check out this collection of resources for nonprofit leaders about the sector’s common leadership challenges, including board involvement.

Author
Karen Eber Davis

Karen Eber Davis Consulting guides executive directors and CEOs to generate the resources, boards, and support they need to make remarkable progress on their missions. As the award-winning thought-leader, advisor, and founding principal of Karen Eber Davis Consulting, Karen helps nonprofit leaders get answers, generate revenue, and grow their mission. Davis is known for her innovation and practicality based on her work with or visits to over 1,000 nonprofit organizations and her experience leading board and team events. She is the author of 7 Nonprofit Income Streams and Let's Raise Nonprofit Millions Together.