There has been much debate over the years about what makes a good leader. If you ask people who comes into their head when they think of a good leader you will get the normal suspects, Prime Ministers, well known social reformers, even entrepreneurs. But what makes a good leader?
This is a guest blog from Sue Pearlman, who is a Trusted Associate with NCVO Consultancy.In the blog, Sue talks about the Governance Forum was held at the Clothworkers' Company on 13 February.
This is a guest blog from Sue Pearlman, who is a Trusted Associate with NCVO Consultancy. Sue talks about how important the relationship between a CEO and Chair is. She asks you to test your assumptions and talk to each other to work out how you will both work together.
Are you an established Chief Executive with an incoming Chair? Are you an established Chair with an incoming Chief Executive? Are you both new together? How will you work together?
We all know that New Year’s resolutions are probably more likely to fail than to succeed but I think that even the failures teach us something. Apart from anything else they teach us about what it is that we want to change. Yes it might take 4 successive years of failing to change but if you change on the 5th year and never look back surely it is worth it!
This is a guest blog post from Véronique Jochum, Research Manager at NCVO. Véronique reports back on the Pathways through Participation project which is a qualitative research project exploring explore how and why people get involved and stay involved in different forms of participation (including volunteering in a hospice, being a member of a local community group, purchasing fair-trade goods and responding to a local authority consultation) over the course of their lives.
Here Véronique shares learning from the Pathways project for organisations thinking about new ways of promoting trusteeship.
At a training event last week on collaboration and consortia there was some disquiet among the participants about the use of ‘business speak’ and some participants got a little annoyed at words like market analysis, profit, competitors, etc.
While watching some trashy television at the weekend (catching up on some Corrie) I was reminded of a training session I once ran which ended with divorce. It was not my own divorce...
The training was for a charity which had been set up to support the families and victims of a large tragedy and to promote the interests of all victims in general. The passion in the organisation was staggering and the trustees and staff were completely committed.
The Charity Commission has recently published new guidance on the Equality Act 2010 for charities and it occurred to me that equality and diversity is an essential issue for trustees to be aware of and often they are not.
There has been much debate over the years about what makes a good leader. If you ask people who comes into their head when they think of a good leader you will get the normal suspects, Prime Ministers, well known social reformers, even entrepreneurs. But what makes a good leader?
We all know that New Year’s resolutions are probably more likely to fail than to succeed but I think that even the failures teach us something. Apart from anything else they teach us about what it is that we want to change. Yes it might take 4 successive years of failing to change but if you change on the 5th year and never look back surely it is worth it!
The Charity Commission has recently published new 
Oonagh Smyth, Senior advisor, shares her advice on governance.
