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.
Growth
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
Courage is Part of the Job
When Your Board Isn’t Governing Well, Who Says Something? The Board is avoiding an important issue. The Chair is shutting down difficult conversations. Management is operating without appropriate accountability. Decisions are being made without enough information....
Mindset Matters – Your Board’s Purpose
Growth and Governing vs Maintenance and Operations What does your Board think its job is? A simple question but one that too many Boards struggle to answer. If Board directors believe their primary responsibility is reviewing financial statements, approving policies,...
A Question Every Board Needs to Ask
How meeting structure can reveal focus Is your Board meeting a governance meeting, or a management meeting with directors present? That’s one of the most important — and often overlooked — questions in governance because it reveals a great deal about how a Board...