Category: Trustee
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Something quietly forgotten
Trustees sometimes need to be alert to changes being quietly slipped through by their staff When I was a manager of group of people, we would have the formal annual review and toward the end of that process, the question of staff development and training would be raised. It was something I was quite keen…
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How much information?
the issue of how much information trustees need often leads to problems Everyone can agree that information is vital for anyone in a management position in an organisation and that applies to trustees and directors of not for profits. The question is: how much do they need? And that is where the problem arises. In…
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Trustees needed …
Are boards asking for the right sort of person when recruiting a new trustee? I get a regular flow of trustee positions via LinkedIn and in my inbox and I was struck looking through them, by the sorts of trustee being looked for. A common feature in these adverts is for specialist skills. These are…
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Strategy
Thinking about strategy is for some, difficult. The need to think in general terms, to imagine the future and to understand and analyse the past, is not it seems given to everyone. For charity boards this can be a problem since it is one of the key functions a board has to do. I was…
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Is the Charity Commission fit for purpose?
This is a question which has rattled around for a decade or so and has widespread implications for how charities are run. It was asked by the Public Accounts Committee in 2014 following some well known scandals or what were thought to be scandals namely Oxfam in Haiti and the Kids Company. Since that time,…
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Birmingham NEC
I shall be at the Volunteer exhibition this coming Friday and Saturday (6 & 7 May 2022) so I hope to meet people interested in this topic and related trustee issues. I may see you there! This post has 2 likes
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Lived Experience
Is the idea of people with lived experience on boards a buzzword looking for a justification? The idea that people with lived experience (LE) should be recruited onto trustee boards more widely is cropping up frequently these days and some funders are expecting to see such people on organisations seeking funding. At first sight it…
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The deadly triangle: part II
In this post I suggest some possible ways to avoid this problem In the last post I discussed what I call the ‘deadly triangle’ which can exist between the chair, the CEO and the board of trustees. I discussed some of the reasons for it and promised to take it further in another post. The…
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New book published
‘How to be a Successful Trustee’ just published Blogsite with a focus on small charities and not-for-profit organisations I think small charities and not-for-profits are a bit of a forgotten corner of our society. Thousands of them exist providing extremely valuable help and assistance to a wide variety of individuals and causes. Hundreds of thousands…
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