A Board's Role in Achieving Long-Term Success

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Webinar Description

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern

While a public power board delegates the management of its utility to the CEO, executive management team, and staff, it retains the all-important responsibility of setting strategic direction and ensuring long-term sustainability of the enterprise. Learn how an effective board develops and adopts policies that set forth the results the utility is to achieve and places limits on the authority of the CEO to determine how those results are achieved. Discuss how to monitor organizational performance at an appropriate level of detail, and how to handle a range of barriers and disruptions to effective governance.

Topics include:

• Establishing key policies
• Keeping informed about strategic issues
• Setting strategic direction and priorities
• Monitoring organizational performance
• Dealing with barriers and disruptions to effective governance

Series Description

This five-part series is designed to provide public power utility board and city council members with a comprehensive overview of the public power business model and the duties, responsibilities, and processes to achieve effective governance. Learn how to monitor utility, board, and CEO performance and discuss the opportunities and challenges the industry faces.

Who Should Participate

Individuals on public power utility boards and city councils, and utility executives and staff who regularly interact with governing bodies. While the content is geared primarily toward those who are new to governance, seasoned board and council members will also benefit.

Speaker

R. John Miner is an executive manager, educator, and consultant with more than 45 years of experience in the electric utility industry. He is president of Collaborative Learning, Inc./Collaboration Unlimited of Austin, Texas. John has been an instructor for the Association for more than 30 years and for the University of Wisconsin for 20 years. Before forming his own company, he worked for the Austin, Texas, Electric Utility Department (now Austin Energy), Rochester Public Utilities in Minnesota, and as an assistant professor at the University of Houston. He is also the author of the Association’s Electric Utility Basics manual.