*The Leadership Assessment is offered only through Flexible Participation*

 

Leadership Assessment guides a museum’s governing authority and senior leadership in examining their roles and responsibilities. It focuses on basic non-profit governance practices and legal and ethical issues specific to museums. It enhances the ability of the museum’s leadership to advance the museum’s mission, plan more strategically, and meet the standards for public trust and accountability.

 

Common outcomes for the Leadership Assessment are:

Increase governing authority’s awareness of

·     museum standards and best practices

·     leadership roles and responsibilities

·     legal and ethical issues specific to museums

Improve the governing authority’s ability to

·     advance the museum’s mission

·     engage in effective planning

·     manage resources appropriately

·     serve the museum’s community

·     recruit and orient new governing body members

·     ensure effective organizational planning

Assess

·     governing authority’s structure and function

·     the museum’s overall organizational structure

·     the relationship between governing body and staff

·          Prepare for accreditation or reaccreditation

 

Activities in the Leadership Assessment focus on:

 

·          Mission

·          Delegation of authority

·          Governance summit

·          Running better meetings

·          Measuring performance of the organization

·          Maintaining strategic focus

·          Recruitment and orientation

·          Collections responsibility

 

Because Leadership Assessment requires a significant time commitment on the part of members of the museum's governing authority, the governing authority is required to pass a resolution in support of the museum's application. This resolution should indicate that the members of the governing authority support the goals of the assessment and will devote the time needed to complete the program. (A model resolution is included in the MAP application.)

 

We recommend that the museum's governing authority begin discussing participation in the Leadership Assessment, and the museum's goals for the assessment, several months prior to the application deadline.

 

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