Compare your assessment of the issues, and your suggestions for resolving them, with the board chair. Try to reach consensus on how to proceed, ensuring that the ideas of both parties are incorporated into your action plan.

If a particular issue needs to be worked out by a committee, bring the committee chair into the discussion and try to reach consensus on how to proceed.

Present your assessments of the issue, and your suggestions for resolving it, to your chair, and ask him/her to take the lead in presenting your joint findings.

If the board chair isn’t the best person to start with, select one of the committee chairs or the trustee with whom you have a positive working relationship. Pick an issue that’s comfortable for you to address, and one you’d really like to resolve. And stick with it; if it doesn’t work the first time, try it with another trustee and with another issue.