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Recommended Reading for Committee/Board Members |
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Board and Committee members looking to improve their service will benefit from these titles recommended by CEF USA Ministries leadership team.
Meetings: Do’s Don’ts and Donuts
The complete handbook for successful meetings
Sharon M. Lippincott
Lighthouse Point Press
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Tired of boring, time-consuming meetings where nothing’s accomplished? Here are the tools you’ll need to run more productive meetings that save time and get results.
Learn the easy steps to:
- Deciding when – and when not- to hold a meeting. And who should attend.
- Using an agenda and established ground rules to keep things on track.
- Choosing where to hold a meeting.
- Managing multisite meeting utilizing teleconferencing or video conferencing.
- Selecting and using software to make your meeting more productive.
The Effective Board Member (previously titled Boardroom Confidence)
“The one book every board member should read”
Bobb Biehl and Ted W. Engstrom
Questar Publishers, Inc.
Sisters, Oregon
A complete, practical tool that tackles your every board concern”
- From basic board skills to advanced training
- Working as an effective team
- Maximizing each board meeting
- Executive protocol
- Reporting to the board
Ten Key Roles and Responsibilities for Board members
Appreciating, Recognizing, and Encouraging everyone who makes a contribution in the group
- Decision Making
- Reviewing, refining, approving, and tracking the Master Plan
- Networking- bringing appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.
- Keeping on overview of the entire organization
- Problem solving
- Record keeping.
- The senior executive – hiring, evaluating and releasing.
- Providing Spiritual leadership
- Maintaining a standard of excellence.
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