Managing your Management Committee
This one-day course is for CEOs in the third sector who want to look at their relationship with their management committee, including the chair.
We will discuss building relationships, clarity about roles and encouraging established committee members to update their knowledge of policies and financial requirements in the face of a changing environment. There will be space to talk about good practice and obstacles faced by others in the same position.
This workshop is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom as Face-to-Face Learning or in the classroom. Please get in touch for availability and pricing.
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Course Overview
This workshop is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom as Face-to-Face Learning or in the classroom. Please get in touch for availability and pricing.
What you will learn
- Establishing good relationships with chair and members – being open and honest about challenges.
- Importance of inductions and being clear about roles
- Ensuring members know what the charity can and can’t do in line with the organisation’s purpose.
- Encouraging members to keep their knowledge of their legal responsibilities up-to-date e.g. finance
- Challenging established culture of committee to in order to allow the organisation to move forward
- The importance of understanding safeguarding
- How to support your committee’s need to understand while allowing staff to carry out their roles
Our Approach to Programme Delivery
Every programme is designed to ensure complete individual involvement and participation, it will stimulate your thinking and challenge you. The key focus is on practical skills and real outcomes throughout. The content will involve an innovative and engaging blend of activities so that you can directly apply it to your current performance and your future success.
Group Learning Events
Looking for a private group event for your team, or even your whole organisation?
We can organise a date that works for you, and we can tailor the content to your team. Our private workshops can be held online, inhouse at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in London.
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The Small Print
For Face-to-Face Live Online Learning
All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.
You should reserve out 10am to 4.30pm in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact.
Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.
Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera — if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.
For classroom sessions
All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.
The course will run from 10am to 4:30pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9.45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.
The happy Guarantee
We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.
If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.
If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with our friendly team.
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Did you know...
...it may help to challenge the established culture of committee in order to allow the organisation to move forward?
A growing number of organisations are abandoning hierarchical management models in favour of something more broadly collaborative.
Happy has a number of other leadership and management programmes, including:
Managing Change Positively to enable you to support your team through change and provide a clear understanding of how to involve people. Find out more
How to Have Conversations that Matter for Leaders & Managers to enable you to have successful conversations with team members and colleagues. Find out more