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What is your motivation?

Workshop Title: Governance and Management the whys and wherefores Workshop Stream: Organisational Development and Management Brentyn Parkin, CEO Community Central & My Community Directory Amy Moon , CBAA Membership & Development Manager. What is your motivation?.

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What is your motivation?

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  1. Workshop Title: Governance and Management the whys and whereforesWorkshop Stream: Organisational Development and ManagementBrentyn Parkin, CEO Community Central & My Community DirectoryAmy Moon, CBAA Membership & Development Manager

  2. What is your motivation? • Contribute to the community* • Use my skills productively* • Meet people with similar interests* • Learn new skills * • Feel valued* • Occupy my time* • Develop experience for paid work

  3. Why are you here? ACTIVITY 1 NOTE: We are all motivated by different things – Lets understand them and work with what matters to us! REMEMBER: What you tell the group will be how they see you!

  4. What bugs you most? • Standing around waiting • Turning up and not needed • Lack of value of my expertise • Lack of respect for contribution • Spending time on work that is not used • Lack of resources I need to do the job

  5. Overview of the Session • Introduction / Poll (motivated by what!) • General Governance and Management Issues • Station Specific Issues • Top ten tips for good governance • Direct you to resources • Q&A

  6. “In the next decade, thousands of baby-boomers will move out of the paid workforce and will have skills to offer.”

  7. Good Governance – Everyone’s business • Transparency • Accountability • Participation

  8. Good Governance – Everyone’s business Volunteers & Staff Management Management Committee

  9. The board • Board members have a legal duty to — • act independently without conflict of interest; • inform themselves appropriately; • make judgements in good faith and for a proper purpose; • make the decisions which they rationally believe to be in the best interests of the organisation.

  10. Board Responsibilities • Setting long-term goals • Determine yearly objectives • Defining the Organisational Mission • Finalising budgets and allocating funds (sometimes delegated) • Approving any changes or additions outside the budget • Managing the financial records • Evaluating programs, services, and products

  11. Board Responsibilities • Employing the organisation's CEO/Manager (paid or voluntary), setting his/her compensation package and evaluating his/her performance • Appointing new Board members • Responsibility for all legal matters • Responsibility for compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g. annual general meeting, annual returns, audit) • Appointing an Auditor

  12. Board/Staff Responsibilities • Discussing ideas and forming long-term goals • Planning organisational strategies • Designing programs to achieve the group's mission • Proposing fundraising ideas • Ensuring risk management programs are implemented • Ensuring that achievements are recognised and documented • Promoting the organisation

  13. Staff Responsibilities • Staff Responsibilities:Providing information to the Board, including recommendations for action • Supporting the Board's planning function • Determining community needs • Operating programs and reporting on their successes and shortcomings • Evaluating performance • Organising the organisation's events, fundraising activities, etc. once approved by the Board

  14. Staff Responsibilities Staff Responsibilities: • Implementing Board decisions • Conducting day-to-day financial operations • Monitoring and managing daily operations

  15. Top 10 • Create well defined role descriptions • Keep good, well documented records • Ensure clarity about relationships between the Board and Management • Acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses • Seek external assistance and co-opt members and volunteers with the skills you need

  16. Top 10 • Look to the future, preserve, strengthen, maintain and sustain • Know your rights • Always adhere to your licence conditions • Know your community – inside (volunteers) and outside (the listeners) the station • Encourage community participation in all aspects of your station.

  17. Drivers for Change Managing the following areas: • Business environment • Cost • Competition • Community Expectations

  18. What volunteers want • To contribute to the community • To use my skills productively • Things that upset or annoyed volunteers most • Lack of resources I need to do the job • Lack of value of my experiences • One third had left an organisation because their effort was not recognised

  19. Governance Resources • Community Door (www.communitydoor.org.au) • Paper and attachments • Links to Volunteer National Standards • Review tool • Model for costing volunteer turnover • Updated strategies

  20. Questions? / Comments? Mr Brentyn Parkin MA, B.Ed, B.A Managing Director, Community Centralbrentyn@communitycentral.com.au 1300 764 643

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