Board Member University

If you want to have a great board you need great board members. There are four stages to the process of bringing new members onto your board: 

1. Preparation
2. Identification
3. Cultivation
4. Nomination

In the preparation stage you lay the groundwork that needs to be in place before you talk to anyone about serving on your board. During this phase, you make sure that you have established the policies and procedures that will be essential for when you are engaging board prospects. 

In the identification stage, you identify people who could be excellent board members. If the preparation stage hasn’t been done well, then this stage is bound to fail. Many boards rely on having just a few people identify possible board members. Putting this task solely on the shoulders of just a few people makes it much more difficult to succeed.

During the cultivation stage, you take advantage of the board prospect recruitment funnel that you created in the preparation stage. Knowing the details of this funnel and how to implement every step along the way will give your board a regular stream of high quality board members.

At the nomination stage you bring the prospective candidates to the board for a vote. On the one hand, board members need to understand that they’re doing more than simply rubber stamping a pre-selected slate,. On the other hand, it can make for a difficult and awkward meeting if board members object to someone being recommended for the board. The process you use at the nomination stage needs to address this difficulty.

If your board is struggling to get high quality board members, chances are you’re missing something important in at least one of these four stages. And this means that your board isn’t attracting the leadership it needs to help your organization advance.

The course includes a video on each one of the four stages of the board recruitment process and 5 PDF guides that accompany the videos. These guides lay out the exact steps you need to take at each stage in order to make sure that you have everything you need. And for each step, you’re given background material so it’s easy for you to implement.

With the videos and the 5 PDF guides, you’ll have everything you need to implement a high-level board member recruitment process.

This course comes with a 30 day, money back guarantee. Here’s how it works: You sign up, watch the videos, download the PDF guides and make use of the material. If you don’t like the material or didn’t find it helpful, just contact me at [email protected] within 30 days of your purchase and ask for a refund. You don’t even have to give me a reason. You’ll get a full refund. You can even keep the PDFs that you’ve downloaded as my gift.

I offer this guarantee because I want to remove all the risk on your part and make it as easy as possible for you to take the next step to improving your board's performance. I love nonprofit organizations and I want to see them succeed.