Welcome To
The Governance Group
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Our approach to board governance enables and elevates you.
A Strategic Approach
We create a fun and collaborative environment with our clients, as we lead you through proven processes and tools so that you can gain significant knowledge, experience, and exposure to the current best practices in effective board governance.
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Best Practices
Our ‘Governance Best Practice’ approach and ‘Leadership Centred Governance Model’ is based on the principles and practices of highly effective non-profit boards across British Columbia and throughout North America. The methodology, training materials and tools are all anchored in tried and tested fundamentals which have been developed over the past four decades.
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Our mission is to improve the performance of non-profit organizations.
Working together with our clients we ensure that non-profit boards of Directors, Board Chairs, CEO’s and Executive Directors more fully understand their roles and responsibilities in executing the valuable work that they do. We highlight and reinforce the notion that boards need to focus on setting direction and ‘steering’ where the boat is going, and chief executives need to focus on ‘rowing’ the boat in that chosen direction.
News & Updates
Taking Governance Seriously: Why Good Boards Don’t Just Happen
Strong Boards are Built – Not Born It is not unusual for many Board Directors to view their Board responsibilities as something they only give time to at the monthly meeting. Unless they participate in a committee or task group or volunteer to help with one of the...
Building a Healthy Board
Tips for Creating a Strong, Effective Team Many Directors wonder why their Board isn’t working well together. The reasons can vary – differences in personalities and motivations for joining, ineffectiveleadership, poor meeting management, agendas that seem thrown...
Five Lessons From Five Years
What We’ve Learned about Governance Time flies when you’re up to your elbows in bylaws and Board meetings! Five years ago, The Governance Group set out with a mission: to help nonprofit organizations build better governance. We knew there’d be challenges, but we’ve...