By J. Patrick Traynor
Three Quick Takeaways
- What gets measured gets done. What doesn’t get measured doesn’t get done.
- If you want your board to become a force multiplier, they can’t just be a loose collective of people. They need to develop chemistry and trust with one another so that they can move in the same direction.
- The more you ask of a board member at the outset, the more they will give you. Performance follows expectations.
Dan Jacobson spent more than four decades as a commercial banker in Fargo and has been involved with charity boards for nearly as long. With his passion for nonprofit service, Dan recently joined the Impact Foundation faculty as a High Impact Boards coach. In this role, he helps boards learn the IMPACT framework, with a special emphasis on implementation and helping organizations develop a High Impact dashboard.
Below, he talks about why investing in your board is essential if you want to take your organization to the next level and why dashboards are such an important part of getting there.
In the meantime, check out some of the other High Impact Boards resources we’ve developed:
- Sign up for the High Impact Boards newsletter.
- Take our short, eight-question survey to gauge how your board is currently functioning.
- Sign up for Dan’s upcoming High Impact Boards dashboard session on Monday, Nov. 4.
- Purchase a copy of the High Impact Boards book.
