Tag: Trustee
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Comms III
this is the last of three posts on the subject of communications In the previous posts, I suggested that the first task was to decide on with whom you wanted to communicate. Books on marketing talk about segmenting the audience which is sound advice for commercial firms. It is relevant to small charities and when…
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Comms II
I discussed the issue of who to communicate with in the last post. Here i want to say a bit more about what you communicate I briefly discussed who you might want or need to communicate with in the last post and here I want to move on to what messages you wish to impart.…
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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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The agenda
the agenda for meetings is all important When I used to work in a civil service environment, I remember being surprised at how much time and effort was expended on planning for meetings. What was on the agenda – and what was to be left off – the order of the items and anxiety at…
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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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Never again!
‘Never again!’ was the response I got from someone who came to my stand at the NEC when I asked him if he was – or was thinking of becoming – a trustee. He was referring to his time as a trustee which had been calamitous apparently. He was a bit reluctant to go into…
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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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Kids Company
Charity Commission report on the problems at Kids Company Seven years ago, the collapse of Kids Company was headline news with even government ministers in the frame for carelessly giving them money. The general picture painted in the media was of incompetence. A report has now been published by the Charity Commission which has painted…
The Successful trustee 