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Saturday, July 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Should My Club Have Committees? » Committees can be a blessing or a curse in the scheme of private club governance and management. When they step over the b...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Is Your Board Living Up To Expectations? Board Evaluations and Benchmarking » The following is an excerpt from NCA's publication Board Toolkit: Club Leadership Essentials. To purchase a co...
Saturday, April 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Club Governance Emboldened: Key Principles of Successful Boards » Beyond the duties of care, loyalty and obedience, there is a, I suggest, a fourth board duty: the duty of imagination....
Saturday, April 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Private Club Succession Planning » “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.” With this advice, Sir Winston Churchill described th...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Using Content Marketing to Your Advantage: 6 Ways for Clubs to Implement Content Marketing » Content Marketing was unknown in 1956 when wily Sam Phillips, the Memphis-based musical producer who launched Elvis...
Monday, January 2, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Special Considerations: Members with Disabled Adult Children » As the membership demographic of private clubs in the United States ages, so do the members’ children and, as is the case...
Monday, January 2, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Fact-Based Governance: A Club-Wide Responsibility » Data is critical to effective club governance. It can provide key information to help clubs determine the best course of a...
Monday, January 2, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Our board of directors has expressed interest in learning about key performance indicators (KPIs) fo » Club boards are typically made up of people who have been successful in some sector of business. Unfortunately, that acume...
Monday, January 2, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) The Board Policy Manual: Aligning Authority and Accountability » Effective governance is a matter of aligning authority and accountability by clearly designating roles and responsibilitie...
Sunday, January 1, 2017 (0 Comments - view/add) Building Trust in the Boardroom » Pew Research Center learned in a 2015 survey of Americans that trust in the federal government was among the lowest levels...
Monday, October 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Financial Oversight: A Key Component of Private Club Governance » HAVING SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE WESTMOOR CLUB’S BOARD OF GOVERNORS for the past several years, I have grown to appreciat...
Monday, October 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Governance Foundation: Structuring Your Board Organization and Process » GOVERNANCE EXCELLENCE IN A PRIVATE CLUB requires a plan built on a foundation of systematic and established disciplines. T...
Monday, October 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Micromanagement and the Modern Club Board: Creating Boundaries Between Volunteers and Executives » CLUB BOARDS ARE OFTEN CHARACTERIZED AS MICROMANAGERS. What might be viewed as the latest “distraction” can become somethin...
Monday, October 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) What are Good Governance Policies for Private, Tax-Exempt Clubs? » The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is increasing its focus on good corporate governance for tax-exempt organizations, incl...
Thursday, September 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) 6 Ways to Build Great Board: Club Leader Perspectives » What makes great board members so great? The fact is that top private club board leaders are made and seldom born. One of...
Monday, August 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Building Your Club's Brand: A Direction Home » Bruce Springsteen said “[it] sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind” when he first heard Bob Dylan’s 19...
Thursday, July 14, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) A Governance Handbook: Crafting Your Board Policies Manual » SUPERIOR PRIVATE CLUBS are very diligent in matters of governance. Those clubs know the truth of Peter Drucker’s adm...
Thursday, July 14, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Club Mission Statements » A club’s mission statement is at its essence how a club perceives itself and how it wishes to be viewed by the outside wo...
Thursday, July 14, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Privacy and Private Status Board Education » Many new directors come from business backgrounds where they are continually challenged to increase sales and profit. They...
Friday, April 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Keys to Uncontested Elections » As the election season heats up, it’s easy for people involved in club leadership to draw parallels—for better and worse—w...
Friday, April 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Club Stats »
Friday, April 1, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Membership Directors » Why is it so hard for my club to find a membership director? It’s difficult to find what you’re looking for because th...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Time for a Rule Review? Making Rules that Grow Membership » As clubs slowly rebound from the recent economic downturn—a period when even the most prestigious clubs deferred capital e...
Friday, January 22, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Transformational Leadership: Changing and Inspiring Club Culture » Transformational leaders, by definition, transform the organization and the individuals around them. The term was coined b...
Friday, January 22, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Tips for how you can upgrade your governance practices to get everyone on the same page » Q: Do you have any tips for how we can upgrade our governance practices to get everyone on the same page? A: Co...
Friday, January 22, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Executive Sessions: Board Intrigue or Good Governance? » Let’s go to executive session.” These are words seldom heard in club boardrooms. Most club boards don’t know how to use ex...
Friday, January 22, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Why do private clubs need strategy? » Q: Why do private clubs need strategy? A: Roughly half of America’s private clubs operate with a strategic plan...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Transparency at the Club: The Clear Way to Strengthen Leadership » While private clubs represent an industry steeped in tradition, there have been a lot of changes over the past three decad...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Leadership Succession Planning: Myths and Realities » In the private club industry, there are generally two distinct views on senior management succession planning: management’...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Phones on the Course: Golfer Preference and Usage » Acc ording to a Golf Digest survey of its 233,000 Twitter followers, 43 percent of respondents would be “fine”...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Same-Sex Marriage: What It Means (and Doesn’t Mean) for Clubs » Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is protected under the United States Constitution, guaranteein...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Transformational Leadership: Become a Better Leader at your Club » Transformational leaders are often described as those who stimulate and inspire followers to achieve extraordinary outcome...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) How do you find the right interim GM and ensure his or her success? » Q: How do you find the right interim GM and ensure his or her success? A: Filling a management gap can be a tim...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Key best practices related to conducting accurate pricing comparisons » Q: What are some key best practices related to conducting accurate pricing comparisons on club supplies? A: It...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) On Course: How a GM and Board Find Equilibrium » The relationship between a club’s general manager and board members is one of the most critical partnerships to the club’s...
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