Governance

A suite of governance tools including online and in-person seminars, board and head of school evaluation instruments, and consultations to raise the performance bar for independent school trustees.  Our services are all uniquely tailored to different types of boards, including self-perpetuating, parent-elected, supernumerary, and hybrid compositions.

 

Workshops & Seminars

 

Governance 101: Orientation to the Essentials of Nonprofit Governance

Includes roles, requirements, fiduciary obligations, boundary issues, critical sucess factors and good practices for individual members and boards as a whole.

 

Governance 301: How Exceptional Boards Add Value

A deep exploration of leveraging factors that multiple the value exceptional boards add to their organizations.

 

Governance by Design

A survey of governance benchmarks for your specific school, along with a discussion of the pros and cons of board size, composition, meeting frequency, committee structures and more.

 

Strategy by Design

A four-time-per-year update on hot topics and emerging strategic challenges, plus a board goal calibration exercise to ensure high impact governance in concert with the school's strategic plan.

 

Customized Board Professional Development

When only a highly customized session on a specific topic or a consultation about a unique challenge will suffice, Triangle can develop a board education session just for your organization and focusing exclusively on the issues most important to your board.  Contact us for a conversation about how we can help.

Surveys & Instruments

 

Board Effectiveness Survey 5.0

The fifth release of our exclusive tool for conducting annual evaluations of board and individual member performance.  Incorporating all of the major elements of good practice, the questions probe how effective members perceive the board to be at its fiduciary, strategic and generative roles, and then ask each member to conduct an individual self-evaluation of their own performance.

 

Head Evaluation 7.0

A range of tools, including the latest release of our industry-standard instrument for collecting multi-rater (360-degree) feedback on the performance of a head of school.  Probes all areas of head performance, plus asks respondents to prioritize among 14 domains of school leadership.  Our assessment is psychometrically robust, research validated, and gathers both retrospective and proactive feedback on strengths and potential areas for growth.