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Now that you have selected a new child care employee from a field of applicants, how do you orient your newly hired staff member? Most agencies provide an introductory period of on the job training combined with a formal orientation to policies and procedures. When it's time to assess an employee's performance, how do you conduct the evaluation? Most staff are assessed based on standardized instruments that have been prepared and reviewed in advance of the evaluation session.When it comes to orienting new volunteer board of directors members, however, formal orientations and training are seldom planned, and performance evaluations are rarely utilized. The contradiction between the seriousness by which child care agencies approach personnel management and their lack of attention to board management can create an imbalance in organizational leadership and effectiveness.
Orientation
Once you have selected a well-suited board member (Bess & Ratekin, 1999) - and he or she has agreed to join the board - the process of board orientation begins. Successful board membership involves a combination of process and task skills (Toseland & Rivas,
1984).
Process skills refer to the social relationships that members establish with one another. This is the interpersonal side
of board member participation. New members have ...