If organizations are effectively ruled, they’ll flourish. If not, they are going to be hindered, and should fail. This quick e book, with its seven easy guidelines, may remodel the way in which you lead.
The Artwork of Good Governance is the one quick e book of its form. It’s written for brand new board members and seasoned board members alike, and is related for the boards of any charity or ministry, together with publishing boards and faculty boards, with transferable ideas for church committees and PCCs.
There are solely seven guidelines to look at, however every is gold. If even one is neglected, there can be penalties.
The well being of a company lies, lastly, with its board, and the precise choice of new board members is important.
It may be flattering to be requested to serve on a board, but when an individual is already serving on two or three different boards, will they be capable of get to conferences often and take a prayerful curiosity between conferences? Will their feedback within the dialogue be told? Or will they merely have scanned the papers on their technique to the assembly?
This little e book asks sharp questions, and offers clear and workable solutions. For a board to carry foresight and perception, what aspects of knowledge and expertise can be wanted across the desk? How ought to new board members be chosen? How will theological integrity and monetary integrity be guarded? How does the board finest work with the CEO and senior workforce?
What questions ought to the board take into account in relation to the recruitment and choice of a brand new CEO, or a brand new board chair? The connection between the board chair and the CEO is essential. Every will need to have a excessive stage of respect for the opposite. However to nominate a CEO who’s an in depth pal of the chair isn’t sensible, and vice versa.
These ‘seven guidelines’ will assist new board members to make sense of the duty they’ve taken on; and convey a welcome check-list for knowledgeable board members. The reader is led by the profile of an efficient board; in addition to ideas, coverage and apply. The e book covers issues just like the orientation of latest board members, the cycle of enterprise, and the board’s relationship with dependent committees. It casts eyes ahead, to make sure funding in youthful leaders.
Repeated like a Greek refrain by the pages come the phrases ‘historical past and values’. If the board doesn’t know the historical past of the ministry or seminary or college it’s now main, it can’t lead successfully. Equally, every board member should not solely know, however personally share its values.
What unhappy tales we have now seen in the previous few years the place boards haven’t grasped the historical past and values of their actions, and to tragic impact.
By observing these seven guidelines, board members will oversee, and hand on, a physique efficient in its calling, and in a spiritually-healthy state. Purchase one for every member. It is well worth the modest funding.
The Artwork of Good Governance 36pp. £2.99. (Oxford, Dictum 2021)
Foreword by Charles Clayton
Compiled by Julia E M Cameron
ISBN 978 1 8380972 5 7
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