Topic outline
- General
General
- Building Enterprising Boards
Building Enterprising Boards
This is a unique opportunity as a Board, to focus on how you move from good to great, supported by a facilitator with vast personal board experience. It is an opportunity to explore and progress the issues that you feel will help to strengthen you as a Board and help your organisation to be sustainable. Whether it is challenges you are currently facing as a Board or opportunities that you would like to pursue, this is a chance to commit to working together on your future.
Programme Details
Dates: Starting February 2021
Where: This programme will be delivered online
Programme Format:
The programme is flexible and will be driven by your individual needs and circumstances. It aims to fit in with your own capacity and the facilitator is available to arrange sessions during the day or early evenings. Together with the senior leader in your organisation and the facilitator, you will set the agenda and focus for the support programme. You will have 10 hours to use over a number of months in whatever way you feel will be most beneficial. For example, following the first session, you may want another 3 hours together as a Board and then a few one to one phone calls with some further time all together. The only requirement is that your first session with the facilitator will need to take place in February 2021 and consist of all Board members and the senior staff member.
The programme will be delivered with an interactive approach. You will work together to explore the topics you have identified in a practical and solution focused way. The programme relies on the group supporting each other to learn and develop and strengthen the way you steward the organisation.
The programme is aimed at Boards who are prepared to pause and reflect on your role as leaders and how you work together. It aims to help you gain greater personal and collective insight, different perspectives and new approaches to building a sustainable longer term future for the organisation you help to lead.
Cost: This programme is fully funded by Scottish Government through Just Enterprise
The
single most important determinant of the success of any organisation is the
quality of its leadership.”
Scottish Government’s Social Enterprise Strategy.
What sort of Boards would benefit from the programme? Boards that would like to focus on some or all of these areas:
- Being more strategic and working more effectively with senior staff in the organisation
- Learning more about each other’s leadership style and how to get the best from each other
- Enhancing the way you communicate and work together ensuring more effective discussions and decisions
- Exploring how you become more enterprising as an organisation while staying on mission and purpose
- Looking at the long-term strategy so you can help build greater organisational sustainability and impact
- Succession planning or expanding your Board
Application Details
- This programme has limited places and support will be awarded following a competitive application process.
- There is a short application to complete if you are interested in taking part in the programme
- Before applying you will need the full support of all Board members and your organisation’s senior leader who will be part of the development support
- As part of application process you will need to identify some areas you would like to focus on and explain how the support will benefit your organisation
- Application Deadline: 26 January
- Application Response: 29 January
More Information
Louise Ross | 0300 302 3333 | leadership@justenterprise.org
