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June 16
Two repeat sessions: 8:00am to 10:00am and 10:30am to 12:30pm
Board Assessment Tool Workshop
The League’s customized online board self-assessment tool, created in partnership with BoardSource, is designed to address issues of importance unique to orchestra boards. Learn how to use the tool in doable and successful ways for your orchestra.
Boards are ultimately responsible for their organization, yet they spend little time examining their performance. Fundraising, budgets, and policies take meeting time away from the bigger picture. A board self-assessment puts governance in perspective by allowing the board to review its responsibilities and ask “How can we improve so that we better help the organization?” This workshop will define criteria for an effective board, outline the benefits of a board self-assessment, describe the self-assessment process, and identify steps that need to be taken after the self-assessment process. It is necessary for boards of directors to review their performance in order to continually move in a positive direction. This workshop will cover many topics explaining the self-assessment process including:
- board roles
- accountability purpose of self-assessment
- benefits of self-assessment
- characteristics of a good self-assessment
- levels of board self-assessment
- self-assessment processes
Faculty: David Styers (
Bio), senior governance consultant, BoardSource
This workshop is made possible in part by a generous grant from MetLife Foundation.
Civic Engagement Tool Workshop
The League’s assessment tool Your Orchestra, Your Community: Roadmap to Success helps orchestras make new and innovative connections to their communities
Your Orchestra, Your Community: Roadmap to Success is designed by orchestras for orchestras eager to reach out and make a difference to their community’s future as well as their own. It is a collaborative assessment tool that provides opportunities for meaningful discussions between orchestras and key community members, and it is designed to open up new possibilities for joint ventures and to create common understanding. The League offers the tool free to its member orchestras, and this workshop will be a hands-on guide to its use. Topics covered will include:
- setting goals for your orchestra
- how to identify appropriate community partners
- how to use the assessment tool to target particular areas of need or interest
- benefits of a collaborative assessment
- characteristics of a good collaborative assessment process
- specific examples of what success can look like
Faculty: Thomas Cabaniss ( Bio), faculty member, The Juilliard School; consultant, Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall