Top Tips on Being an Effective Chair Liz...
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Top Tips on Being an Effective
Chair
Liz Cross
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Explore our shared take on effective chairing
What do HA’s need in particular?
Share some top tools and techniques
Objectives
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What does effective look like to you?
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Effective Chair’s Focus- my take
•Purpose
•People
•Process
•Probity
•Plan
•Possibilities
What would you add
from your experience?
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What does your HA/the sector
need in particular?
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The Role
Langland’s Good Governance Standard for Public Services
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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!
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Tools and techniques
to increase
effectiveness
as a chair
and of a board
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STRUCTURE PROCESS
CAPACITY/
CAPABILITY LEADERSHIP
BEHAVIOUR
PERFORMANCE
CLIMATE
VISION/VALUES/STRATEGY
The Connectives’ Proprietary Model
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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 !
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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
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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
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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
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Self reflection –
how do you know you’re effective ?