Leadership

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After School  

  • Leadership

After School: Home Ties

Serving as treasurer for her university alumni association has strengthened this business officer’s connections to Thailand.
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  • Admission
  • | Enrollment
  • | Leadership

Advancing the Bottom Line: Integrating Enrollment and Advancement This item is protected.

Integrating advancement, communications and marketing functions can help leaders tap resources to generate alternative revenue streams. Ann Snyder, director of independent and international schools at the Council for Adv
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Data Collection Made Easier

Collaboration between NBOA and NAIS will yield new insights that will help all schools plan strategically.
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Risk & Compliance  

  • Legal
  • | Risk Management

Risk & Compliance: Religious Rights and Personal Liberties in Independent Schools

Religious schools should consider how high courts have recently handled the “ministerial exception” when considering issues such as transgender rights and vaccine exemptions.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Every Kind of Leader Has a (Correctable) Blind Spot

Whatever your greatest leadership strength is, it can become a liability — that with sufficient attention, you can correct for and bolster.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

When Politics Knocks, Answer with Mission

Our schools’ missions and values are being put to the test. They should be our guide as we navigate contentious times. 
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5 Minutes with  

  • Boards and Trustees
  • | Leadership

5 Minutes with Rose Neubert: More Voices Lifted

NBOA’s 2021–23 board chair shares how diverse visions are helping shape a stronger future for her school.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Collective Effervescence

We have been missing something in our professional development that I am hopeful we can now reclaim, with the appropriate precautions.
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  • Leadership

Rising Higher: Strategies to Strengthen the Business Office Pipeline This item is protected.

Tapping and cultivating internal talent can lead to strong new business office leaders.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

A Long View on Leadership

Our schools will need strong business office leadership far beyond our current crises.
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  • Leadership
  • | Professional Development

How Is a Business Office Built? This item is protected.

Results from a recent survey suggest business office staffing is based on number of responsibilities more than budget size.
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  • Change Management
  • | Diversity and Inclusion

DEI Transformation This item is protected.

How to build consensus, maintain energy and remain mission-aligned when your school faces questions regarding its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

The Future of Virtual Governance

We would do well to continue some aspects of digital meetings developed earlier in the pandemic — but not all of them.
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CEO Notebook  

  • Leadership

Burnout Is a Problem. Collaboration May Be the Answer.

We are facing another tenuous school year with the spread of the Delta variant, but we can lean on each other for support — and new ideas — to help our schools thrive. 
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After School  

  • Leadership

After School: A Passion for the Pitch

Coaching youth soccer has helped this chief financial officer forge deeper connections with his colleagues and students.
3 min read

CEO Notebook  

  • Change Management
  • | Culture

New (Fiscal) Year, New Mindset

If we want to power forward with change and innovation, as we learned we could last year, we might try thinking more like a scientist.
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5 Minutes with  

  • Crisis Management
  • | Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

5 Minutes with Chris Lukach: Pivotal Moments

When communicating about difficult issues, do not aim to avoid conflict but rather strive to convey the school's work and the spirit in which it is done.
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  • Human Resources
  • | Leadership

Developing Future Leaders from Within

Succession planning and opportunities for internal advancement can make for smooth transitions and sustained leadership.
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  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • | Leadership

Back in Action at BOI

Last week, from June 21-24, 50 new and relatively new business officers met to learn and connect during NBOA’s first virtual Business Officer Institute. While the program was concentrated compared to previous years, to m
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  • Leadership
  • | Technology

Award Winner Spotlight: Quentin Voyles, Saint Edward's School

Voyles has formed strong and trusting relationships with faculty, which has led to piloting new classroom technologies and continual improvements in delivering education.
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