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

• Strategic Planning that Matters: Engaging Key Stakeholders
• The Board’s Role in Strategic Planning
• Engaging Physicians in Strategic Planning
• Emerging Health Care Trends
• Revitalizing Your Organization through a Board-Driven Direction-setting Process
• Strategy, Structure and Integration: The Principal Levers for Health System Financial Success

Governance

• Strategic Direction-Setting: The Key to Board Performance
• Trustee: Trusted by Whom to Do What
• The Key Ingredients of High-Performing Governance
• Better Understanding of the Board / Management Relationship
• Streamlining Governance and Retaining Community Involvement
• Boards as Health Care Change Agents
• Conflict of Interest on Health Care Boards
• Accountability and Transparency

Physician Relationships

• Physician Collaboration: Building Trust and Services
• Coordinating Clinical Care Across the Health System
• Addressing Physician Discontent through a Governance Assessment and Restructuring Process