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Issues for the chair
Working with the chief executive
Strong, effective management working in partnership with strong effective trustees is a winning formula and something that all boards should aim for.
- A chief executive's guide to making the most of your board
- Advice to a new chief executive
- Information spin: does your chief executive give you bad news as well as good?
- Joint leadership: chair and chief executive
- The chief executive's report: what should be in it?
Ground rules for board papers
The quality of board papers has an enormous impact on the quality of discussion and decision-making at board meetings and therefore the quality of governance.
Dealing with trustees
It is the chair's responsibility to provide leadership to the board and to ensure that every trustee gives of his/her best and brings added value to the board. This often means dealing with trustee problems such as:
- Advice from a new chair to her board
- Conflict management and resolution
- Dealing with a problem chair
- Dealing with an invisible trustee
- Dealing with a self-important trustee
- Dealing with conflicts of interest
- Dealing with poor attendance by a trustee
- The bullying trustee
- Dealing with trustees with personal agendas
- Dealing with a reticent trustee
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