As new business officers gathered last week to learn and connect, we were reminded of the incredible community business officers have created.
Member insights were crucial in developing NBOA’s new strategic framework – and we’ll need your feedback today and going forward to assess its progress.
CEO Notebook
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Budget
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Change Management
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Leadership
As we move away from the forced changes of pandemic years and into intentional innovation, consider a few low- to no-cost efforts successfully undertaken by colleges and universities.
We’ve completely overhauled NBOA.org to make it easier for our members to use and engage.
Wonder Woman had a complex personality. So might you — and that perspective can help you as an independent school leader.
Global events, like the war in Ukraine, are impacting our workplace, even if the conflict is many thousands of miles away.
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Human Resources
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Leadership
A deep understanding of your school’s talent pool is a competitive advantage.
The selected schools have demonstrated creative new ways to approach maker spaces, endowments and a multi-campus business model.
Last year’s collaboration between NAIS and NBOA has resulted in this year’s exceptionally robust set of clean financial and operations data in BIIS.
School business leaders can take a page out of improv actors’ rule book to generate creative solutions.
Your school’s extraordinary efforts have made an extraordinary impact on your school community.
Three takeaways from Stephen Sondheim’s storied career can help independent schools face another challenging year — with verve.
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Remote work isn’t in itself an obstacle to building trust among colleagues, but strong results require intentional bridge-building.
Collaboration between NBOA and NAIS will yield new insights that will help all schools plan strategically.
Whatever your greatest leadership strength is, it can become a liability — that with sufficient attention, you can correct for and bolster.
CEO Notebook
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
Our schools’ missions and values are being put to the test. They should be our guide as we navigate contentious times.
We have been missing something in our professional development that I am hopeful we can now reclaim, with the appropriate precautions.
Our schools will need strong business office leadership far beyond our current crises.
We would do well to continue some aspects of digital meetings developed earlier in the pandemic — but not all of them.
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.
