02/22/2022

Take Preventive Measures to Address Bad Board Member Behavior

Ignoring it will only allow it to worsen

No one goes out of their way to recruit a difficult board member, but sometimes you end up with one.

At one point in her career, Mona Buckley, CAE, now president and CEO at the Government Employees’ Benefit Association, had a board member who wanted to become president-elect. The problem: He wanted to circumvent the process. The organization had a slated nomination process where the nominating committee solicited recommendations from the entire board and then determined the best candidate.

It turned out that the candidate who wanted the president-elect position wasn’t slated. He started calling other board members to complain that the process wasn’t fair, and he wanted them to contest it. He also asked if he could count on them for their vote.

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