• REALBoard On-Line Learning™
• REALBoard Tool Kits™
  • Meaningful Monitoring
  • Board Self-Evaluation
  • Connect! A Guide To Ownership Linkage
  • Future-Focused Agendas
• Governance for Health System Trustees
• Policy Governance Games - PINGO™ & PGIQ™
• Board Recruitment Resources
• Refund/Delivery Policy

REALBoard On-Line Learning Modules

REALBoard On-Line Learning is designed to help you learn about a system that will help your board become  Results-Focused, Excellent, Accountable, and Linked to Shareholders/Owners.

This modular course covers all of the Policy Governance principles. Each module can be completed in 15 to 20 minutes, so that you can learn in convenient segments that match your personal schedule.

REALBoard On-Line Learning is for you if:

• Your board is considering Policy Governance, and wants to learn more about how it works.
• You are a new member of a board already using the Policy Governance model, and want to get "up to speed”.
• You already use Policy Governance, but want to refresh your knowledge.
• You are considering joining a board that uses Policy Governance and want to know more about how it works.

Subscription price is $350 per user, per year or $1500 per year for your entire board

To order the REALBoard On-Line Learning modules email us or phone 403.720.6282

Click here to sample one of the REALBoard On-Line Learning modules

REALBoard Tool Kits

Meaningful Monitoring

Monitoring is critical to the board’s ability to be accountable to owners. This Tool Kit is designed to address “real life” questions about the process of monitoring the CEO. How does a board attend to this important task without spending undue time doing so? What should a Policy Governance monitoring report look like? Meaningful Monitoring gives you practical tips, samples and a variety of tools to make monitoring easier and more meaningful.

$29.99 each, or order 8 copies for your board at $19.99 each and receive a complimentary CD of all the tools

To order Meaningful Monitoring email us or phone 403.720.6282

 

 

 

Board Self-Evaluation

The second in our REALBoard Tool Kit Series is designed to address real-life questions about Board Self-Evaluation (sometimes called board monitoring) using practical tips, samples and a variety of tools!  Make board self-evaluation a meaningful part of your governance process!

$34.99 each or order 8 copies for your board at $24.99 each and receive a complimentary CD of all the tools.

To order our Board Self-Evaluation Tool Kit email us or phone 403.720.6282

Connect! A Guide To Ownership Linkage

The third volume in our REALBoard Tool Kit Series is designed to answer the “real-life" questions about the process of connecting or linking with owners. How does the board attend to this critical task, enabling it to gather the wisdom necessary to effectively provide leadership?.

Connect! A Guide To Ownership Linkage provides practical tips, samples and a variety of tools to make your efforts to “Connect!”  easier and more effective.

$34.99 each or order 8 copies for your board at $24.99 each and receive a complimentary CD of all the tools.

To order this Guide to Ownership Linkage email us or phone 403.720.6282

Future-Focused Agendas

Many boards fail to realize the full value of Policy Governance by simply creating policies, but then not making optimal use of their meeting time. This fourth volume in our REALBoard Tool Kit Series is a practical guide to focusing a board on the future direction of the organization, thus maximizing the potential of the Policy Governance model. 

$34.99 each or order 8 copies for your board at $24.99 each and receive a complimentary CD of all the tools.

To order this toolkit to help you create Future Focused Board Agendas email us or phone 403.720.6282

Governance for Health System Trustees

By Jannice E. Moore
CHA Press, Ottawa, Ontario
Foreword by Dr. John Carver

This book addresses the application of the Policy Governance model specifically to the needs of health system governors.  It provides you with 1) the questions you need to ask yourself and 2) the answers, so you can determine if you’re doing the right things to ensure the long-term future of your health organization.  Whether you’re a trustee of a health region, an acute care or a long-term care facility, or a health-related voluntary agency, you need to know and understand exactly what your board’s responsibilities are.

Read a review of this book.

Governance for Health System Trustees includes the following chapters:

1. Introduction (includes frequently asked questions)
2. The Board’s Job
3. Focus on the Mission
4. Clear Delegation and Empowerment
5. Accountability
6. Standards for Board Members’ Behavior
7. Effective Board Structure and Organization
8. Staying on Top of Information
9. Managing Board Documents and Information
10. Using Board Time Effectively
11. Managing Your Relationships
12. Taking Responsibility for Good Governance

199 pages, 2004
ISBN 1-896151-11-6 

$39.95 each plus shipping

To order Governance for Health System Trustees email us or phone 403.720.6282

Policy Governance Games

PINGO™ ​- A fun, interactive learning session geared to boards who are new to Policy Governance.  This is an opportunity to test your understanding of the principles of Policy Governance and their application. You’ll also have fun with your fellow board members and staff as you compete to be the first to call out PINGO!

$60.00 Ea

Game Includes:
25 Game Boards
75 Pingo Question Cards
100 Glass Bead Markers


PGIQ™ - A challenging, fun way to enhance Policy Governance learning and increase your mastery of Policy Governance!  Reinforce your understanding of Policy Governance principles and their application with a stimulating “jeopardy” style game.

Teams of board members compete to answer questions ranging from basic principles to challenging applications in areas such as monitoring, ownership linkage, Ends policies, delegation and executive limitations. May be played as a board game or visually displayed with PowerPoint version, included on CD.  All questions include complete answers, as well as specific references to the subject matter in one of John or Miriam Carver’s books. 

Includes: Two complete sets of 25 questions and answers in boxed form (total 50 questions)

PowerPoint version of the two sets of questions
Re-usable score cards and markers
Instructions

Suitable for use at a board retreat, or may be played in smaller segments as an educational component of any board meeting.

PGIQ™ Board Game including CD with PowerPoint version ready to play

$95.00 each

To order the Policy Governance games, email us or phone 403.720.6282

Board Recruitment Resources

The Best-Fit Board Member Matrix™ [downloadable from our e-store]

The Best-Fit Board Member Matrix is a downloadable tool to assist you in recruiting the most effective board members. This tool provides a simple method for your board to compare candidates based on your own customized criteria. It provides a listing and description of characteristics to consider when recruiting and selecting board members. It also allows your board to add or delete specific characteristics that are important to you, and to determine as a board the relative importance of each characteristic.

$35.00 each

 

    
The Best-Fit Board Builder™ [downloadable from our e-store]

The Best-Fit Board Builder provides a “question bank” for each of the characteristics in the Best-Fit Board Matrix. You can select from these questions to design an interview guide for board member candidates and references. These questions will help you assess the “soft” characteristics that are desirable for board members to possess in order to be positioned to govern with a pro-active, future focus.

$99.00 each