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Top Tips on Being an Effective

Chair

Liz Cross

Explore our shared take on effective chairing

What do HA’s need in particular?

Share some top tools and techniques

Objectives

What does effective look like to you?

Effective Chair’s Focus- my take

•Purpose

•People

•Process

•Probity

•Plan

•Possibilities

What would you add

from your experience?

What does your HA/the sector

need in particular?

The Role

Langland’s Good Governance Standard for Public Services

Is corporate governance and HA

governance the same ?

• Shareholder value vs stakeholder value

• What measures do you use to test impact – social,

economic, environmental

• Accountability mechanisms – who judges your success

• Would corporate governance be improved if private sector

boards adopted some of Langlands’ tests!

Tools and techniques

to increase

effectiveness

as a chair

and of a board

STRUCTURE PROCESS

CAPACITY/

CAPABILITY LEADERSHIP

BEHAVIOUR

PERFORMANCE

CLIMATE

VISION/VALUES/STRATEGY

The Connectives’ Proprietary Model

Key Competencies

• Thinking strategically*

• Guiding strategic action

through others

• Critical information

seeking

• Problem solving and

decision making

• Sensitivity to others*

• Influencing

• Working with others*

• Confidence and self

control*

• Corporate citizenship

• Building capacity and

capability*

•What do the best chairs do more of and better

•The Connectives

Board Members Competencies Framework

Its not what you do it’s the way that you do it !

Focusing the Board

Corrective Monitoring

• Sentinels

• What’s the problem

Co-ordinate Strategic

• Strategists

• What’s the plan

Co-create Generative

• Sense makers

• What’s the question

Chait – Governance as Leadership

Reframing the work of Non-Profit Boards

Personality

Preferences

Taking into account people’s

differences around:

• Talking things out or thinking

things through

• Evidence based or possibility

focused

• Logic or person centred

• Structure or spontaneity

Personality Tests – the big 5 factors

Techniques for Group Work

•Adjournments

•Issue park

•Presentation

•Q & A

•Small group work

•Thinking pairs

•Use the flip

•Vary the room layout

Getting more out

of people

and

meetings

Self reflection –

how do you know you’re effective ?

Contact details

liz@theconnectives.com

07973 721 815 www.theconnectives.com