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Considerations before Implementing Policy Governance®

Considerations before Implementing Policy Governance®

You may have landed on this blog because you are one of the quiet –or not so quiet –advocates for Policy Governance®to be introduced to your board. Perhaps your board would like to implement the model, but doesn’t know where to start. It’s possible it has all the...
The Challenges of the Reasonable Interpretation

The Challenges of the Reasonable Interpretation

If you have any familiarity with Policy Governance®, you will have heard the term any reasonable interpretation. It is the Policy Governance principle that in my experience is the one most often misunderstood. If you are not familiar with this principle, let me...
Unless the Board Approves

Unless the Board Approves

Recently I was meeting with a board that was just beginning to implement Policy Governance®. The board appeared to have a good grasp of the model including the principle of Executive Limitations. The board understood the idea that it would delegate authority to the...
Budgets are Bad??!!

Budgets are Bad??!!

[Note: if you are not a church, there’s still a lesson in this blog.] “A budget is the most overworked, overused, misunderstood, and inaccurate piece of fiction that a church board will ever see. It’s like a bad steak which is chewed on, gnawed on, and eventually...
What a Board Approves, it Owns

What a Board Approves, it Owns

I was about 11 years old when I attended my first auction sale. I quickly got the idea how the system worked and as a budding entrepreneur I got into the bidding and ended up outbidding everyone else, in the process scoring an antique rocking chair for two dollars....

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Policy Governance® Virtual Workshops

Introduction to Policy Governance® courses starting:

October 8, 2025

November 5, 2025

Assessing Monitoring Reports:

October 22, 2025

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