Retreat & Speech Topics

ACCORD custom designs retreat and speech topics to meet the needs of its clients. Some examples of topics that ACCORD has addressed during board retreats, orientation sessions, or educational programs are listed below.

Strategy

• Engaging the Board in Strategic Planning: Rationale, Tools and Techniques
• Emerging Health Care Trends
• Involving Physicians in Strategic and Service-Line Planning
• Revitalizing Your Organization through a Board-Driven Strategic Direction-setting Process
• Strategy, Structure and Integration: The Principal Levers for Health System Financial Success

Governance

• Board Basics for New and Experienced Trustees
• Advanced Practices in Health Care Governance
• Institutional Integrity: Personal Imperatives for Directors in the New Era of Accountability and Transparency
• Clarifying the Board / CEO Relationship
• Streamlining Governance and Retaining Community Involvement
• Successful Board Orientation and Education
• Board Leadership Succession Planning
• Conflict of Interest on Health Care Boards
• Enhancing Public Hospital Governance Effectiveness

Physician Relationships

• Physician - Hospital Alignment: State of the Art and Keys to Success
• Building Trust - What Works and What Doesn't
• Focus on Quality to Facilitate Physician Collaboration
• The Role of Governance in Addressing Physician Discontent