A half-day workshop
Do you know as much as you should about the governance roles and responsibilities of charity trustees and board members? Or the duties of a CIC director?
Have you and your board ever held a professional discussion about governance standards, legal duties, compliance or succession planning, for example?
Are you being the best board you can be?
This programme will help you fill in the gaps and point you in the right direction. It will offer learning and ideas to support you in your trustee and/or director role. It uses your current situation and experiences to shape learning and actions.
- A clearer understanding of a trustee’s or director’s individual and collective liabilities and responsibilities
- A basis on which to evaluate your organisation’s governance capability and to carry out a board skills analysis
- Understanding of the principles of quality VCSE governance and how to apply them
- An opportunity to discuss with your fellow trustees and/or directors what you need to do next
Expert trainer
Amanda is a consultant, coach and facilitator specialising in working with senior leaders and directors, including board members, in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE). Her work ranges from one to one coaching of CEOs and chairs, to providing quality governance consultancy and training workshops, masterclasses and board away days.
Session outline
This is an indicative agenda – a starting point for a conversation with you. We would be happy to tailor it to your precise requirements.
1. Introductions/scene-setting
2. Current challenges
- Current governance challenges in your organisation
3. Directors’ liabilities and quality governance
- Director’s roles and responsibilities
- The chair-staff-volunteer relationships and requirements
- Demystifying VCSE governance
4. Board effectiveness
- Meeting sector governance requirements and standards:
- Role of the board
- Board audit
5. Next steps
- What will you do to improve your approach to governance and your role as a director?
- What will be different about your next board meeting?
- Action planning:
- Starting conversations to develop board, staff and volunteer insight
- Improving information flows between the board and staff and volunteers
