UNIS Governance and Leadership: Resources

Step-by-step guide on how to solicit big donations for charitable organizations.

This tool helps you foster the growth and development of your CEO and organization and enables your board to evaluate the chief executive’s performance in four key areas: annual performance goals, core competencies, leadership qualities, and accomplishments and challenges.

Overview of effective nonprofit governance practices and seeks to answer four basic questions: What is governance? What is the role of the board? What is expected of board members? How does an effective board operate?

The book features nine crucial steps for the board to follow through the board development process. This book is intended not only for organizations where the board is charged with selecting its own members but also for organizations where the authority to appoint new board members rests elsewhere.

Focuses on helping nonprofit board chairs carry out their responsibilities for the good of the organization. Whether you are a seasoned board chair wanting to brush up and learn something new, an incoming board chair seeking knowledge and skills, or a person considering the possibility of becoming a board chair, this book is intended to be user-friendly and practical.

This book zeroes in on the specific needs of the independent school board chair in a time of accelerating change. Both practical and thought-provoking.

Nonprofit organizations - management. Board of Directors. Chief executive officers.

Succession planning precedes executive transitions -- 5 key succession planning steps prior to the executive search -- Determining where the organization wants to go prior to executive transitions -- Six key issues for the board to address during the executive search -- Hiring the chief executive does not complete the succession planning process.

Chief Executive Transitions will not only help boards navigate the hiring process but also oversee a successful leadership transition. It includes checklists, key questions board members will need to answer as they go through the process, and practical real-life examples.

Based on more than ten years of practical experience, this step-by-step process can help board members to refine their understanding of the organization, strengthen their commitment to mission and goals, and improve their ability to lead cohesively and effectively.

This book explains how to create a culture of inquiry within the boardroom — one marked by mutual respect and constructive debate that leads to sound and shared decision making.

Pink asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Resource on marketing international schools.

The 12 principles help board members understand and meet the expectations and requirements of their positions, providing a vision of what is possible and a way to reach a higher level of effectiveness.

It is important for all board members and volunteers to understand both the challenges and benefits of working with a board. An executive committee can be difficult to understand - and to keep under control.

How to determine the configuration of your financial committees -- The finance committee -- The audit committee -- The investment committee -- Challenges of combining various financial committees -- The finance committees' role in maintaining independence.

Every nonprofit needs money to survive and thrive, and every nonprofit has a board of trustees to help raise it, but few nonprofits come anywhere near using their boards to maximum benefit.

Lencioni turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.

The author reveals how your board can raise surprisingly more money with a tweak here and there. Written specifically for board members, and filled with stories that board members can relate to, Jerry knows how to inspire.

Highlights the board's role in communication, presenting an overview of roles and responsibilities that will help board members provide the necessary vision, support, and oversight.

An insider's guide to the coming philanthropic revolution Meet the next generation of big donors--the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most significant donors ever and will shape our world in profound ways.

Practical tips and perspectives to help chief executives build and maintain a fruitful partnership with their board and move board performance from ordinary to extraordinary.

An addition to Jim Collins's book "Good to Great" that focuses on achieving high performance in the social sectors.

Presents the findings of a long-term study on a group of companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained those results for at least fifteen years, looking at how those businesses compared with organizations that failed to achieve high performance, and identifying the factors that make the difference.

Providing a step-by-step approach to create an organizational culture that supports a deep commitment to sustainability, this new book suggests appropriate entry points for board involvement. It explains how to formulate a vision and strategy, develop a sustainability policy, review investments, and provide oversight.

Governance in schools has grown from trial and error to become a complex and emotive issue that can result in schools lurching from boards that micro manage to those that simply rubber-stamp senior administration recommendations.

A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards.

Outlines the principles for building a great enterprise in turbulent times.

This comprehensive resource explores the overarching question of governance within nonprofit organizations and addresses the roles, structures, and practices of an effective nonprofit.

Presents tools people may use to gentle anger in others and to dissolve their personal bitterness, based on a five-step formula that may be altered to meet the needs of specific situations.

Explains how people see companies and brands and why they make the choices they do, as well as what it takes for companies and brands to earn and keep loyalty.

The author provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.

Written from the unique perspective of independent schools outside of the United States.

Discusses the pitfalls of self-deception for business leaders, and describes how this can lead to associates undermining performance in an organization, potential causes, and possible solutions to improve teamwork, communication, trust, motivation, and more.

ready-to-use information that will help your board members provide the valuable input that will propel your organization to greatness. This must-have resource poses critical questions, provides easy-to-implement answers, suggests tools, and clarifies legal and ethical expectations.

Explores the process of managing people and ideas to achieve a high level of results in a complex, turbulent global economy.

Do schools reflect society, or do schools transform societies? We believe that excellent schools have the potential to do both.

An essential guide to good governance for board leaders at alllevels of experience and expertise The book covers such topics as board structure and process, board member recruitment and orientation, board-staff relations, and financial management.

Like the instrument panel on the dashboard of a car, a dashboard report presents a quick, comprehensive overview of an organization's status and overall direction, giving more meaning to the information the board receives.

Discusses all the chief executive’s responsibilities, including supervising staff, overseeing operations, and supporting the board.

This practical step-by-step guide and reference will help you establish an effective compensation structure. It will also help you maintain public trust by increasing the transparency and integrity of your compensation practices.

The Non-Profit Narrative is designed to help non-profits apply storytelling principles to their day-to-day operations and communications for maximum impact. Utilizing the idea that all organizations have great stories to tell, Dan Portnoy encourages non-profits to interpret fundraising and engagement from the perspective of storytelling.

A resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by putting into practice the groundbreaking model that was introduced in the book, Governance as Leadership.

Effective principals run effective schools--this much we know. Accurately measuring principal effectiveness, however, has long been an elusive goal for school administrators. In this indispensable book, author James H. Stronge details the steps and resources necessary for designing a comprehensive principal evaluation system that is based on sound research and established best practices.

The authors describe the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM.

Step-by-step guide to creating compelling, memorable presentations

Covers involvement in managing, developing, and implementing strategic plans for the International School.

Nonprofit governance calls for visionary and vigilant leadership, efficient and flexible structures, productive and proven practices, an inquiring and trusting culture, and a shared passion for the mission. This book provides a set of basic guidelines to enable nonprofit boards to meet these challenges and develop board members who are actively engaged in the life of the organization.

Not only explores the board’s 10 core responsibilities, it also puts them into the context of the governance challenges facing nonprofits today.

Provides a fresh look at committees and illustrates how boards can use simple and flexible work groups to streamline the work of the full board.

Provides advice on the three stages of coping with life changes; discussing aging, the workplace, and relationships.

The no-nonsense explanations will help you quickly understand complicated financial concepts so that you are equipped to perform your legal and fiduciary responsibilities, to set realistic financial goals, and to determine your organization's performance.