Catching a cloud: accurately assess your organisation’s culture

Session Aim: You’ll come away an understanding of how to define an organisation’s culture and the role of trustees in supporting its good health

‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ as the famous saying goes.

The trustee role is centred around strategic direction so understanding your organisation’s culture is crucial if you want your strategy to stick. Yet an organisation’s culture can seem nebulous and hard to define especially when you’re not involved in the day-to-day running and your first hand experience of it is limited to interactions with the rest of the board and the executive team.

We’ve put together a panel of seasoned trustees who will draw on a range of different board roles to explore:

• How you can assess your organisation’s culture accurately
• What are the common attributes of a well functioning board
• What signs to watch for that might indicate something’s not right 
• How to support the executive team in developing and facilitating successful working relationships with the team
• Practical tips trustees can implement to model positive culture 

This session is open to anyone, but we think that it's particularly of interest for trustees and chairs, especially those who are on the boards of organisations that have staff or volunteers to manage. 

The session is £10 to attend.

You can buy a weekly pass for access to all of the Festival of Trusteeship events, including this one, for just £25. An early bird price of £15 ends on the 31st August. Head to this to purchase the weekly pass. After you've bought the pass, you'll receive the links to join all festival sessions.

Network/Membership Organisations - If you are a network and/or membership organisation who you like to bulk buy tickets to offer to your members, we can do this via an invoice and unique code. Please contact us at [email protected] to arrange this.

This session will take place on Zoom. The joining link will be sent in the Eventbrite confirmation email. You will also receive email reminders from Eventbrite 2 days, 2 hours and 10 minutes before the session starts. These reminders will also include the joining link.

The session will be recorded and be shared with you so you can rewatch.

If the session uses slides, we will send these to all who have booked a ticket following the session. Our panel sessions don't use slides. If having the slides prior to the session will make it more accessible for you, please email [email protected] and we will gladly send them to you.

As an attendee, you can enable closed captions during the session. For panels, we 'spotlight' panelists so the view stays consistently on those speaking. If you have booked a ticket, please contact [email protected] if there are other adjustments we can make to the session to make it accessible to you.

Join us for a jam packed week of 15 live events from Monday 4th November to Friday 8th November 2024. To celebrate Trustees' Week, our Festival of Trusteeship will bring together a huge amount of trustees, aspiring trustees, charity staff and governance specialists to take time to consider, reflect, plan and action all things trusteeship and governance. You can see the full programme of events here

All of our sessions designed for aspiring trustees are free. All other sessions are £10 to attend. Our weekly pass, £25 for access to all sessions, is incredible value. We are able to run the festival at a low-cost and, hopefully, as a result more accessible, thanks to our wonderful sponsors Ecclesiastical.

Reward Your Board - We believe that the Festival of Trusteeship is a wonderful and low cost way to support your whole Board with their personal development as trustees, as well as an opportunity to consider wider governance issues which may impact on your organisation.

We'd love to reward your board if more than 2 trustees would like to attend the Festival. Please complete this very short form to gain a 25% discount code on weekly passes for all your board members to encourage them to join the Festival.

If you have any specific questions about the Festival, please contact us at [email protected].

Getting on Board is on a mission to change the face of trusteeship. Our Festival of Trusteeship is just one of the ways we are working towards that.

We recommend taking a look around our Eventbrite page to see if our other sessions are of interest. You can also head to our website for more information about everything we offer.

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