A highly motivated and competent Board of Directors is essential to the success of any organization. The board of directors is a leadership group of the organization and is legally entrusted with the responsibility to govern a for profit or nonprofit corporation or organization. Today, many boards find themselves facing severe challenges related to the downturn and shifts in the economy and subsequently are challenged to find better and more creative ways to insure organizational resources.


Hyden Consulting can help develop untapped talent, increase efficiency, improve board governance skills and increase the capacity of your organization. Through our assessment tools, consulting expertise, and customized training and development programs your board will increase its effectiveness and learn proven methods to enhance organizational sustainability. We offer a variety of specific board development and improvement programs that can help your organization be more responsive to all stakeholders – to everyone who has interest in and/or has a “stake” in the organization, public audiences, donors, and particularly, to the local and regional communities which the organization serves.

Board Development Programs for Building Strong, Effective Boards:


  1. • Orientation and Training – Keys to Being an Effective Board Member

  2. • Strategic Plan Development and Strategic Planning Retreats

  3. • Creating Energized Board Committees, Task Forces, and Advisory Groups

  4. • How to Conduct Effective Board Meetings, Use of Committees, Dealing  With a Difficult Board Member, Managing Board Conflict, etc.

  5. • How to Build Stellar Board and Staff Relations

  6. • Board Manual Development and Revision

Skills improvement and capacity building are enhanced through Hyden Consulting’s Board Development Programs. Key areas of training are reflected in the following diagram. 

Learning to be an effective Board takes a commitment on the part of the board members to continually improve their skills and regularly evaluate their performance and make necessary improvements. Hyden’s Board Development Programs will help your Board learn how to increase their presence and influence, function efficiently and effectively, make decisions effectively, ask the right questions, increase participation levels and improve fund development outcomes. Click here to setup your consultation.

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