By Julie Garland McLellan on September 27, 2011
One of the longest running and most passionately argued debates on LinkedIn concerns the issue of payment for directors of not-for-profit organisation boards. Although the focus of the mainstream press has remained fixed on the high salaries of executive directors and the apparent abuses of performance hurdles so that executives are rewarded for destroying, rather [...]
By Julie Garland McLellan on July 2, 2011
Probably the most important procedure that the board will undertake is the board meeting. At this meeting members of the board obtain and exchange information from each other and from the executive team, establish the objectives of the organisations, take decisions on courses of action and investments, delegate authority to the management team, and jointly [...]
By Julie Garland McLellan on June 1, 2011
Here are some thoughts I put together on the issue of board gender balance. I would love to have your feedback on these.
By Carter McNamara on April 23, 2011
(See Part 1 of 2) Relationship Model Steven Block proposes a model that, instead of having a rigid, top-down structure of roles and hierarchy of the traditional policy model, provides for Board and staff members to work together with great priority on generating relationships and value from those relationships. The Executive Director and staff play [...]
By Julie Garland McLellan on April 18, 2011
When the Lead Independent Director role was first introduced it was viewed with suspicion. Now, in companies where the incumbent has performed well, it is viewed as an essential component of board success.
By Julie Garland McLellan on January 31, 2011
Leadership development is an important aspect of the director role, and not just something that is recommended for executives. All directors should review their own leadership skills from time to time and determine what and how to improve.
By Carter McNamara on January 19, 2011
One of the biggest misconceptions about the Fundraising Committee is that its members are to do the fundraising for the nonprofit. No, the job of the Fundraising Committee is to ensure that the fundraising is done very well. The actual fundraising should be done by all Board members, with various staff members supporting those Board [...]
By Julie Garland McLellan on December 29, 2010
Three common issues that can hamper even skilled, ethical and intelligent directors: conflicted relationships, committee thinking and shareholding!
By Julie Garland McLellan on November 5, 2010
This post examines some of the differences in thinking between managers and directors. It explains how to assist when a novice director needs help in making the required changes to their thinking.
By Carter McNamara on October 23, 2010
There has been an extensive amount of research and sharing of opinions about what makes for a highly effective Board. Asking what a healthy Board looks like is akin to asking what a healthy person looks like or how much a car costs. It all depends. Yet for the sake of furthering your understanding of [...]
Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organization development and consultant training services, and is developer of the Free Management Library.
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Julie Garland-McLellan uses her experience and depth of knowledge in corporate governance to show boards with limited resources how to be more effective through practical governance innovation and know-how.
Nick Lindsay of Elemental CoSec, provides corporate governance, legal and company secretarial advice to a wide range of companies in the UK.
