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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
The Consent Agenda
What it is and how it works Many Board meeting agendas include a long list of routine items such as previous minutes,correspondence, committee reports, the Chair and CEO reports. These items often take up much of the meeting without meaningfully advancing the Board’s...
Steering, Not Rowing: Oversight vs Operations
Good governance means knowing your role – and sticking to it! Policy making versus management, oversight versus operational – arguably, the most important and debated aspect of governance comes down to the Board knowing its role. Some of the debate is philosophical...
How to Have Short Meetings
Essentials for Productive Board and Committee Work We’ve all been there: Someone puts up a PowerPoint at a meeting, says they won’t read it all and then proceeds to recite the whole thing word for word…sigh. Or maybe the Chairperson says, “Let’s keep this quick,” but...