Board Standards of Excellence

The Board Standards of Excellence are concrete actions organizational boards can take to create positive change — for your team and your mission effectiveness. They capture the essential ways organizations become great.

the four categories

Board Talent Board/Professional Partnership Performance and Accountability Board Culture

the overarching lenses

Jewish Thought and Practice Talent and Culture Standards of Excellence Belonging

How to use this infographic

Click any quadrant of the wheel to read about that category and expand the Standards of Excellence within it. Click any outer ring to learn more about an individual Standard of Excellence.

Each Standard is expressed along a spectrum: Foundational standards as the accessible "start here" practices, and Aspirational standards as the vision for what organizations can grow toward. Together, they provide a way to begin and a direction for long-term impact.

The inner ring holds three lenses that frame every Standard: Jewish Thought and Practice, Talent and Culture Standards of Excellence, and Belonging.