Session 1 | Wednesday August 27 | 10:00 - 11:30am
BUILDING YOUR BOARD'S HUMAN CAPITAL
Who serves on a board is more than simply finding a warm body to fill a seat.  Your board is part of your organization's human capital, an asset that pays off big when infused with care and feeding.  This webinar will discuss the cycle of board recruitment, orientation and assessment.  We'll talk about blending and building competencies, the role of the board development committee, and some tools that you can use right away.

Session 2 | Wednesday September 3 | 10:00 - 11:30am
MAINTAINING MOMENTUM WITH TRAINING
Some may argue that a project-driven organization is a way to keep boards and executives engaged. While projects bring energy all their own, the risk is burn-out.  Momentum is best maintained by reaching a balance between "doing" and "understanding why we're doing this is important".  Both are important to developing the human capital around the board table, but it's the second piece -- the understanding piece -- we'll focus on.  We'll talk about various ways to engage boards and staff leaders in developing the intellectual capacity needed for this work, from retreats to "guerilla training".

Session 3 | Wednesday, September 17 | 10:00 - 11:30am
LEADERSHIP IN TRANSITION
Board leaders come and go.....or come and never leave.  As much as we might try to prepare for the orderly succession of board presidents, officers, and committee chairpeople, too few organizations allow themselves enough time to think through and articulate their future board leadership needs.  How can busy organizations create space for these discussions?  What are the likely outcomes your organization can expect when board leadership succession is designed and managed?

About the Instructor
Anne W. Ackerson AnneApic In 1997, Anne Ackerson began an independent consulting practice based on her two decades of work as director of several historic house museums and historical societies in central and eastern New York. She balances this work with her role as director of the Museum Association of New York, a member-based professional organization working on behalf of the state's 1400 museums and historical organizations in an effort to encourage best practice and to raise awareness about the critical role museums play in the educational, economic, and civic landscape of New York. Anne is a frequent workshop presenter and author, focusing on issues of board and organizational development, and planning for the smaller nonprofit cultural institution. In her work as an independent consultant, she has assisted more than 75 arts and cultural institutions with strategic planning, policy development, and governance issues. In 2005, she presented workshops on fundraising and building organizational capacity for the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations and she participated on a panel at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Conference in Baltimore where she presented a status report on the development of a new standards program for New York.