Empower Your Organisation

Why invest in board development and orientation? The main reason for conducting board orientation and development is twofold, firstly as a risk mitigation strategy and secondly as part of the organisations ongoing commitment to director development. Generally it is more effective to have the orientation workshop structured over a focused three and a half hour session. However, one must take into account the realities, time availability and practicalities of doing this from the Boards perspective.

Experience over the years has indicated that it is generally beneficial to give an overview of the sector, which includes the different types of NPO’s and their responsibilities. Then lead into board composition, sub committees and their deliverables, approval frameworks and delegation of authority, followed by an explanation of the current codes of good practice including KING III & IV, We included Board effectiveness as this has become a critical area in board development and close with the Greiners five phases of growth model. We have found that this flow encourages open and productive interaction with the board, especially as discussion points are included during the presentation to gain full participation from the board members.

Prior to the workshop being conducted a NPO diagnostic is supplied to the organisation for completion, to assist in the customisation of the workshop to cover core critical areas of identified organisational development needs.