Category: Resources
Board Skills Audit [Template]
This is a template that can be used to complete a skills audit of your board. This can be used as a recruitment or induction tool, but is also highly useful to inform succession planning. The second section of the table is to gather information about organisation-specific skills, rather than general governance-skills.
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Rethinking Risk
This guide is for Trustees, Honorary Officers and Senior Managers of charities in the UK. It offers ways of categorising risks and gives practical steps to approaching and managing these risks effectively. It explores all aspects of managing risk in organisations; it unpicks types of risk, the use of registers, examines who makes what contribution […]
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Governance Stories
This guide is for first time Trustees of small to medium charities and associations, both with and without paid staff. The guide uses story-telling to look at the joys and difficulties of governance. It takes as its starting point a group of individuals and follows them through the various stages of their organisations growth, development […]
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Guidelines in Governance
In 2010, Scotland’s Third Sector Governance Forum ran three workshops on key governance issues. A report, based on the learning points from the workshops, was written following each workshop: 1. Getting the Best Out of the Relationship Between the Chair and Chief Officer 2. Governance and Cross Border (UK) Charities in Scotland 3. Partnerships and Collaboration
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