1. Create an Engaged, Enthusiastic
Board Full of Passion for the
Cause
AFP Toronto
December 1, 2010
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How To Get
Your Board
Fired Up
About the
Cause

3. “No Problem Can be
Solved From the
Same Level of
Consciousness That
Created It.”
Albert
Einstein
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4. Change YOUR Perspective
1. Take responsibility.
2. Ask them what they
think and listen.
3. You’re in the
motivational business.
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5. The Fired-Up System

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Board Members Need
A Story to Tell

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. . . because
they don’t know
what to say.

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#1 Re-Ignite
Their Passion
Discover Their
Personal Story

9. Why Do You Care About
Your Organization?

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1.What you say
2.How you say it
3.Get a reaction
4.Request for followup
Mingle Exercise =
The Elevator Speech

11. “Gail, I am putting some of your ideas into action….
At our last Trustee meeting, I asked, “What legacy do you
want to leave from serving on this board?”
Well, you would have thought I had opened the flood gates. One
man told us about his cousin in hospice . . . and how we helped his
family through that terrible time.
This turned out to be the best meeting we've had so far on with
this group in the last 3 years!
This is a wonderful and satisfying change for the better.”
Laurie Taylor, Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation
Great Results!
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12. SNEEZE (the viral message)
Wherever You Go!

13. A Deep Discussion
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A Deeper Discussion

14. Bring Your
Fundraising
Program Alive
Panel Discussion:
#2 What Are We Raising Money
For?

15. #3 Give Board Members a
Direct Personal Experience
of Your Impact in the World
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16. #3 Mission Moments for Board Members

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A Word
About
Nonprofit BOARDS

18. Is This Your Board?
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19. Is This Your Board?
Is This Your Board?
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Is This Your
Board?

20. High
Level
People
Doing
Low
Level
Work?

21. Is This Your Board?
Is This Your Board?
Is This Your Board?
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Is This Your Board?Boring Meetings = A Bored Board

22. #4 Liven Up Your Board
Meetings

23. Liven Up Your Board Meetings
1. Fireside chat with the ED.
2. Blow up the agenda.
3. Focus on problems, challenges, or broad
issues.
12 WAYS TO LIVEN
UP A BOARD
MEETING www.gailperry.com

24. Is This Your Board?
Is This Your Board?
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Reasons to Return to a Meeting
1.Learning
2.Recognition
3.Efficient
4.Effective
5.Irritants deal with
6.Have fun!

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A Board Member
Deserves
a TERRIFIC
Experience!

26. What Do Board Members Want?

27. Motivate Board Members:
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Don’t Burn Out Your
Board Members!

29. 10 Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards
1. Determine the organization’s mission and purpose
2. Select the chief executive
3. Provide proper financial oversight
4. Ensure adequate resources.
5. Ensure legal and ethical integrity and maintain accountability.
6. Ensure effective organizational planning.
7. Recruit and orient new board members and assess board
performance.
8. Enhance the organization’s public standing.
9. Determine, monitor, and strengthen the organization’s
programs and services.
10. Support the chief executive and assess his or her performance.
- Boardsource quoted in GPA blog post

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Is Your Board Focused on
MANAGING your organization
Or
ADVANCING THE MISSION?

31. Group Process
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A Nonprofit Board as a
“Group”

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The Solution?

33. Don’t Forget!
Peer pressure
Drives
Performance
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34. #5 Give Them Social Time
#5 Give Them Social Time

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Social Time For
Board Members
Builds
Trust and
Collegiality

36. 7 Insider Secrets of
High Performing Boards
1. Ground rules.
2. Clear expectations.
3. Team spirit.
4. Trust.
5. Partnership with CEO.
6. Commitment to action.
7. Social Time.
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37. #6 Specific Action Items
What do they need
TO DO
in the next
three months?

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A Fired-Up Board:
#1 Re-Ignite their passion
#2 What are we raising $ for?
#3 Mission moments
#4 Interesting meetings
#5 Social time
#6 Focus on action items

39. Last Word on the BOARD
“If the rate of change
on the outside
exceeds
the rate of change on
the inside,
the end is near.”
Jack Welch
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