[Ailist] Non-profit board and committee chair summitt help

[Madelyn Blair]

Neil,

I would ask them to talk about some great experiences they have had in their synagogue and to tell a story about that time. Even if the story is about anothoer synagogue, it will give them an idea of what is important to people. 

Madelyn
 
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006, at 09:33PM, Patricia Lustig <Tricia at lasadev.com> wrote:

>Neil,
>The question that immediately sprang to my mind was:
>
>What kind of a synagogue do you want for your children and grandchildren?
>What kind of a synagogue do you think they want?  What does that community
>feel like?
>
>It should be a great experience!
>Tricia
>
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>
>I will be leading a  one day(I hope)session for the board and committee
>chairs of our synagogue --about 30 people. They have NEVER met before and
>there is a desire to develop stronger lay leaders. Rather than propose any
>"training" I suggested to the small group leading this effort that we take
>the board et al offsite for a day to focus on the future--that is, what do
>they want THEIR board to be like in the future. Whatever comes out of Design
>would then form the basis for future work. 
>
>My question is if anyone has some really good questions for the protocol
>given that some of these people are not on the official board and may have
>never had a board experience. 
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Neil
>
>PS: I looked on the Commons and could not find anything. And is there any
>way to search our archives by topic without having to do it month by month?.
>Am I  missing something?
>
>
>
>Neil D. Samuels
>President
>Profound Conversations, LLC
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Madelyn Blair, Ph.D
pelerei, Inc.
mblair at pelerei.com