Staff Performance Review Policy

Purpose of the policy

To ensure that a review of the Executive Director's performance happens regularly.

Philosophy

"Some boards neglect their duty of evaluating the director. They may fear conflict, be at a loss for the tools, or lack the tradition. All are poor, if common, reasons to avoid evaluation. That’s too bad, because evaluation offers numerous benefits, including:

• Ensuring that the board is meeting its duty to actively lead the organization
• Monitoring whether organizational goals are being achieved
• Providing an opportunity to set new annual goals
• Maintaining a formal, documented, fair, and pragmatic process for providing

feedback to the executive

• Helping the executive understand the board’s perspective on his or her

strengths and limitations

• Providing direction for specific improvements in skills and performance
• Providing documented processes that help the board retain, improve, or retire the

executive, as well as justify changes in compensation and other matters of record

• Maintaining a process and documentation that can help protect the board if they

let a chief executive go and the chief executive decides to sue the organization

• Helping board members examine the executive’s accomplishments rather than

personality

• Laying the foundation for an improved working relationship between board

and executive

• Identifying opportunities, strengths, challenges, and strategic questions before

they become troubling issues." Source (pdf)

Dates of Effect

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