Board Chairs and CEOs: Partners in Leadership The program is designed to explore and strengthen the unique and pivotal relationship between a health system’s or hospital’s CEO and Board Chair; teams will address issues of health care governance within the context of turbulence and uncertainty. |
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| Sunday, March 25, 2007 | |
| 6:30p.m. | Cocktail Reception |
| Monday, March 26, 2007 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions. Each Board Chair will be asked to identify a key governance issue the board faces; each CEO will be asked to identify a key strategic issue the institution faces.
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| 9:15 a.m. | Governance in Action. A short case study will be used to explore the relationships between the CEO and the Board Chair, and between both parties and other trustees.
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| 10:15 a.m. | Break
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| 10:30 a.m. | Mutual Expectations.
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| 11:15 a.m. | Reports. After both groups summarize key points from their meetings, we will discuss similarities, differences, and practical implications.
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| Noon | Lunch
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| 1:30 p.m. | Creating a Cohesive Board. We will engage in several interactive exercises to identify the hallmark characteristics of units that work well together, and we will then consider how to apply this knowledge to governing boards. This session will conclude with some key findings about high performance teams and the roles of Board Chairs and CEOs in building cohesive boards.
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| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Team Meetings. Guided by a set of discussion questions, each Board Chair-CEO team will meet privately to consider whatsteps they can take to further strengthen their working relationship and the cohesiveness of their board. At the end of the session, each team will describe anonymously the single important step they’ve agreed to take: (1) to bolster their own working relationship; and (2) to improve the capacity of their board to function effectively as a unit.
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| 5:00 p.m. | Recess
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| 5:30 p.m. | Cocktails and Dinner
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| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast
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| 8:30 a.m. | Facilitator Guided Discussion. The faculty will provide a playback of the common themes from the team meetings as a foundation for discussion.
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| 9:15 a.m. | Governance as Leadership: Key Concepts. A presentation and discussion organized around key concepts and components of effective governance. Based on both research and field work, the material will provide both a conceptual framework to think about three different, but related, modes of governance, and offer practical steps to perform each mode well.
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| 10:30 a.m. | Governance as Leadership: Best Practices. A presentation and discussion of the best practices that can leverage improvements in the board’s performance.
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| Noon | Lunch
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| 1:15 p.m. | Team Meetings. Each Board Chair-CEO team will meet to develop a specific, concrete action plan, with near-term and longer-term goals, to change the way their trustees do business in order to enhance the value added by the board to the institution, and to enrich the trustees’ experience and sense of significance. Each team will identify action steps that they’ve decided to take to improve the board’s performance and/or enrich the trustees’ “job.” We will summarize anonymously the action steps in the session that follows.
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| 2:15 p.m. | Reports. Summary of team meetings.
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| 3:30 p.m. | Question & Answer Period. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of the faculty and share individual or team perspectives.
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| 4:15 p.m. | Adjourn |
