Competency-Based Governance Tool Kit

Competency-Based Governance Tool Kit

Overview:

In 2009 the Blue Ribbon Panel on Trustee Core Competencies, convened by the AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance and the Health Research & Educational Trust with funding from Hospira, issued its report recommending two sets of core competencies for board members of hospitals and health systems. The panel also suggested that tools and resources should be developed to help boards apply these competencies to a variety of board practices.

Over the past year a work group of health care organization trustees, executives and governance experts developed four sets of competency-based tools that boards can use in trustee recruitment and selection, board member education and development, peer assessment of individual board member performance and board leadership development and succession planning. The tool sets were tested by hospital and system boards and finalized for distribution to the field.

The Competency-Based Governance Tool Kit includes all of the tool sets and step-by-step processes for implementing each of them. The Tool Kit also provides an overview of how the tools were developed and a model that shows how application of the tools can help boards establish a competency-based foundation for governance effectiveness.

Click here to purchase the tool kit.

Click here to return to the Monograph page.