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Board Process Design & Facilitation
- Governance Model
- Committee Structure
- Board roles and responsibilities
- Skills and attributes matrix
- New board member selection criteria
- Board member engagement
- Board meetings
- Board orientation program
- Ongoing board development program
- Board assessment process
- Succession planning process
- Board member coaching
Governance is the Board's most significant role. Not only is good governance important in setting the stage for effective leadership and oversight, but a well functioning board is an important strategic asset.
SLP can help your Organization:
- Engage and develop board members
- Promote a healthier boardroom culture
- Design a structure & tools to govern actively and responsibly
- Employ best practices and solutions designed specifically for your organization
- Clarify board member roles and responsibilities
- Enhance decision making
- Improve performance
- Increase accountability
Boards governed to succeed are a requirement in the private sector, driven by public scrutiny and awareness of the need for greater governance and the need for greater accountability. Institutional investors in particular are becoming more vocal.
SLP can help your Corporation
- Meet the guidelines set out in The Final Joint Committee Report on Corporate Governance by the TSE/CICA
- Promote a healthier culture in the boardroom
- Facilitate a process whereby issues are selected for priority analysis
- Satisfy the increasing stringent requirements of investors
- Improve accountability
Good governance is a competitive advantage for nonprofits seeking support as donors are becoming more sophisticated in their screening practices and insisting on higher levels of accountability
SLP can help your Nonprofit
- Satisfy the increasingly sophisticated demands of donors
- Individuals
- Foundations
- Government granting agencies
- Engage Board Members
- Promote a healthier culture in the boardroom
- Leverage board member skills, experience and networks
- Involve board members in the strategic planning process
- Design a board and committee infrastructure for your stage of development
- Ensure higher levels of accountability
- Compete more effectively for donor support
Boards governed to succeed are a necessity for programs supported by public dollars. With government spending increasingly under the microscope, granting bodies need to ensure that the charities they support have established good governance procedures, follow those procedures, and maximize the benefits of the funds provided.
SLP can help your Granting or Funding Agency:
- Assess the governance policies of applicants
- Assure yourselves of the effective governance of the organizations that you support
- Assess independently the strategies of organizations that you support
- Maximize the benefit of public dollars
- Ensure accountability
