How prepared is your board chair?

For the past year, I’ve been working with a research team  of really smart colleagues (Debra Beck, Judy Freiwirth, Mike Burns and Mary Hiland)  to better understand board chairs.

Chairs were asked two sets of questions around these topics:

1. What they did to prepare for becoming chair
2. How they understood their role in relation to the rest of the board, to the CEO and to their community.

The Alliance For Nonprofit Management is releasing a sneak peek infographic today with a few highlights from the study. The full report is due out in January.

Here’s just a taste of what we found.