title: Improving the performance of your board.
abstract: Leadership from your Board of Directors defines who you are as an organization and steers it, hopefully, in the proper direction. It takes an optimum balance of collective knowledge, skills, generations and geography to create a Board that will best suit your needs and those of your donors, patients and consumers. Leadership takes intelligence, character, integrity and energy. Getting the right volunteer leadership is one of our tougher challenges, and helping to improve their abilities and skills as Board members is even harder.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Randell
mesh_terms: D006075:Governing Board / Q000592:standards*; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D011361:Professional Competence; D024382:Professional Role; D014481:United States