Good Questions to Help Make Better Boards

The best question I’ve been asked was from an executive director: “Can you help me figure out how to fire my board chair?”

Unfortunately, there is little an executive director can do with an underperforming, ineffective, inappropriate or bullying board chair. I would suggest a policy that provides a grievance process for the executive director. The best thing a board member can do to help is to interrupt the practice of electing people to be chair just because the individual has served his or her time.

People need the skills to be an effective board chair. Electing the wrong person can be detrimental to an organization.