What a great way to celebrate our sixth birthday! After launching our new complimentary report: 'Being the Changemaker: Successfully Navigating MBA Design and Innovation' with Jeff Bieganek Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable and Mark Thomas, PhD in Boston, last week at the Business Schools Association of Canada (BSAC) Annual Conference in Ottawa, I was delighted to be asked by Timothy-Daniel Daus to speak and facilitate a discussion on the Deans’ Track about increasing the effectiveness of business school advisory boards.
Creating and maintaining the optimum relationship between an advisory board and a business school takes time and focus but the result is rewarding for everyone. Get it wrong and frustration is created on both sides.
I am very grateful to our panel of deans: Howard Nemiroff from Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Anita Bhappu from Peter B. Gustavson School of Business and John Nadeau from Shannon School of Business and to all attending the session for their insights and the really interesting discussion including:
· managing and reshaping inherited boards
· aligning board membership with school strategy and values
· clearly defining the support and advice the school needs
· comprehensive board member induction
· accessing board member networks and increasing impact
· alternative formats and content for advisory board meetings
In times when resources are scarce, every effort needs to yield maximum value. At H&A, we have done the thinking for you and have built on our report on business school advisory boards to develop a framework and template resources that we tailor to help define, reshape and focus advisory structures within schools, faculties and across universities, to provide much needed insight, advice, income and resource.
We now conclude an exciting three weeks for Hardcastle & Associates by moving on to something closer to home, with the Chartered Association of Business Schools Annual conference in London early next week where Gareth Howells and I are looking forward to catching up with everyone.
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