If you serve on charity or non-profit boards you will, at times, have experienced governance at its best, or when it is doesn’t seem to be working well and occasionally, and hopefully rarely, when it seems to ‘go off the rails’.
If you serve on charity or non-profit boards you will, at times, have experienced governance at its best, or when it is doesn’t seem to be working well and occasionally, and hopefully rarely, when it seems to ‘go off the rails’.
Governance is about how power, control and decision making is exercised over an organisation. Managers operate through good decision making. Boards should be democratic in their decision making, but in practice this may not happen as we might expect.
While there won’t be time to go through the detail of specific situations today, this session will be an opportunity for participants to share what they have learned from experience, what they have learned about governance, and how similar difficulties may be avoided in future.
Our facilitator today, Alastair Greeves, will start off the discussion with a real-life governance situation or incident to discover how problems and surprises may be avoided with good governance practice.