Weightier leadership titles, expanding support services stand out in NBOA’s 2016-2017 Business Office Compensation and Staffing Survey Report.
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2017 NBOA Annual Meeting preview: Why do some large-scale changes at schools take off and solve problems while others fall flat or create new headaches?
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Independent schools are bracing for upcoming FASB changes. A number of NBOA resources can help.
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2017 NBOA Annual Meeting preview: Bestselling author Susan Cain makes the case for nurturing your inner introvert while making “strategic forays” outside of your comfort zone.
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The question for business officers is a perennial one: How can I support this effort with confidence that our school is making the best investments with its financial resources?
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Pop songs and poetry get their “best of” lists — so we thought Net Assets should have one too.
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Risk Management
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Safety and Security
A four-step strategy for preventing sexual abuse in independent schools.
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2017 NBOA Annual Meeting preview: In times of complex change, “innovation is as important a function to business officers as to anyone else.”
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This school's re-enrollment letter doesn't focus on tuition price. And families love it.
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Compensation Strategies
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Employment
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Salary
From the archives: Administrators are working with faculty to develop new compensation structures that clarify where teachers stand and what benchmarks they need to achieve to move up.
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NBOA has achieved a number of milestones over the past year--and we're starting off 2017 with a bang.
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How to balance requests for temporary leave with your school’s financial needs.
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Who will suit up for the next generation of leadership? What challenges will they inherit? What skills and attributes will they need to ride the wave successfully?
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Job Description
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Leadership
As longtime independent school leaders retire, their successors will step into dramatically different circumstances. What will they (or you) need to be successful?
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Human Resources
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Leadership
What if there are no obvious candidates on tap to take over the senior finance/operational reins? How to identify and attract your next generation leaders? Cast your net wide, and prepare for competition.
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Money Matters. But so do mission and quality of life. “Feeling good about your work is a driving force.”
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CEO Notebook
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Consider making your New Year's resolution to develop more of who you already are — in other words, to play to your strengths.
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Whatever our personal feelings about the presidential election, we in the independent school community can unite in a shared understanding of the potential impact on independent schools.
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Riding motorcycles and collecting them has been a way of life for this business officer.
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Key Technology
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Risk Management
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Technology
Texting is where students live. For staff-student communications, schools must develop policies that balance safety with reality.
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