Life Builders Ministries teaches Organization Development as the process through which an organization develops the internal capacity to most efficiently and effectively provide its “mission work” and sustain itself over the long term.

Life Builders Ministries can provide an objective diagnosis of the issues impacting the board performance, assistance in framing and prioritizing issues appropriately, demonstration of cause-and-effect relationships influencing board outcomes, guidance in establishing systems, processes, and behavioral norms tailored to the specific conditions and needs of your board, forums, methods, and practices through which the board can actually work together to plan and problem solve as needed, group facilitation, to help the board stay on target and move through the “rough spots” of its deliberations.

Effective board training is based on an accurate diagnosis of the situation along with prioritization of goals – What is happening? What do you want to change? What results do you want to accomplish? Ask "Do I need to inform the board?" or "Do I need the board to perform better?" Sometimes, the answer is "both." Here are some topics we cover:

• Meetings that work
• Is an “enjoyable board meeting” an oxymoron?
• Board’s Responsibility
• What is an Agenda?
• Holding meetings under 90 minutes
• Policies
• Turning Committees into Communities
• Executive Evaluation
• Communication between Board and Executive
• Board Consensus
• and many more…