How to Select First Rate Board Members
BOARD INTERVIEWS: THE WRONG WAY
If you’ve ever heard yourself saying the following in a board interview, you’re doing it wrong:A therapist once told me something important. Insert the word BUT into a sentence and you invalidate every word of the sentence that precedes it. “I love you, but…”So what’s wrong here? Almost everything.You learn nothing about the prospect.You sound desperate.You are not honest or clear about the obligations.
QUESTIONS YOU WISH YOU COULD ASK
So what are the right questions? Before we get to that, here’s what we wish we could ask.I hope you forward this to your chair of Board Governance right after you read this article.That was fun.
THE RIGHT QUESTIONS TO ASK
OK, so let’s get to the meat of it. What questions should you ask in a board interview to get the best possible board members? Here are six critical interview questions for non profit board members.If you ask me, the single biggest problem with interviewing board candidates is that they are not interviews at all. Candidates come to “interviews” assuming that the job is theirs if they want it. The committee sells and persuades and typically does not vet the candidate in any substantive way. And real discussions about the fundraising obligation are swept under the rug for fear of chasing a good prospect away.Come on folks. Can we please remember that board service is a privilege? That working on behalf of your organization is a gift. That public service is core to the betterment of our society.I’d say “man up,” but that would be sexist.
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