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Garthson Leadership Centre
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Leadership Services
Governance
- Explaining real-life governance options and models
- Helping Board choose, adapt and implement a governance style
- Developing policies and policy manuals
- Supporting related changes to Operations
- Identifying by-law issues for Board and legal consideration
Transitional & Interim Leadership
- Providing hands-on service as acting Executive Director or other leadership role to ensure continued progress towards mission when the position is vacant due to:
- maternity leave, major illness or sabbatical
- gap caused by longer hiring process than anticipated
- abrupt departure of executive
- desire to defer hiring permanent replacement until certain key decisions are made
- Note: location, hours and method of compensation are based on needs of your organization
Board Development
- Clarifying roles and responsibilities
- Improving Board recruitment, orientation, training and retention
- Increasing effectiveness of Board operations
- Maximizing value of Board committees and other supporting structure
- Evaluating Board dynamics and Board members
Vision & Strategy Development
- Facilitating future-oriented, creative visioning of possible and desirable futures
- Identifying and analyzing issues, hopes, concerns, process issues and other information critical to strategic thinking
- Drawing out dreams, barriers, priorities and other strategic input from planning group
- Helping boards and senior staff make tough choices and plan next steps
- Clarifying operational and resource implications
Confidential Guidance for Chairs and Executive Directors
- Providing an knowledgeable sounding board and source of advice for leaders facing problematic situations or hard decisions, on a one-time basis or throughout a situation
- Helping the individuals identify learnings they can apply in future
Organizational Reviews
- Conducting review of programs or structures in terms of service to the mission, effectiveness, consistency with values and best practices
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