National FFA Organization Board of Directors Governance Policy Development

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National FFA OrganizationBoard of
DirectorsGovernance Policy Development

• A Better Way of Doing Business

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Purpose

• Represent the owners
• Proactively communicate with ownership and act on
  their behalf.
• Lead the organization
• Determine strategic direction of the
  organization.
• Delegate the work of the organization.
• Evaluate
• Exercise fiduciary responsibility by evaluation
  the operation.
• Be accountable to the ownership for
  organizational performance by reporting back.

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Governance Policy How much detail?
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How Much Detail Is Needed?Any Reasonable
Interpretation
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Policy Nesting Approach to Policy Development
Governance Process
Ends
Board-Management Delegation
Executive Limitations
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Governance Process Defines the Boards Job

• The purpose of the board is to
• Represent the interests of the moral ownership.
• Determine the benefits that the organization will
  provide, keeping a long term, strategic
  perspective, and
• Monitor the operations to ensure that the
  Executive Limitations policies are being complied
  with and that the Ends policies are being
  accomplished.

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Executive Limitations Sets Limits on COO

• The COO shall not cause or allow any
  organizational practice, activity, decision or
  circumstance, which is either
• unlawful,
• imprudent, or
• in violation of commonly accepted business and
  professional ethics
• inconsistent with the values, morals and ethics
  of FFA and agricultural education

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Board-Management Delegation Links Board
Governance to the COO

• Within the limitations of Public Law 105-225, the
  board's sole official connection to the
  operational organization, its achievements, and
  conduct will be through a chief operating
  officer, titled the COO.
• The board will view COO performance as identical
  to organizational performance, so that
  organizational accomplishment of board-stated
  Ends and avoidance of board-proscribed means will
  be viewed as successful COO performance

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Organizational Ends The Effect the Board Hopes
to Have on Students

• Because the National FFA Organization exists
  students in agricultural education succeed
• Specifically
• 2.1 Our highest priority is that students
  achieve
• - premiere leadership skills
• - personal growth
• - and career success

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Benefits

• Board adopts modern management practices.
• Clarifies roles and expectations.
• Committees operate only when needed.
• Reports are targeted to specific Board
  expectations.
• Full Board engages in financial discussion based
  on agreed upon expectations.
• Commits Board to communicate and engage
  ownership.
• Streamlined approach to decision making and
  delegation of authority.

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Governance is not about the Board controlling
more or less.It is about the Board controlling
the right things appropriately.John Carver, 2006