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Effective relationships between boards and staff are essential for an organization’s success, shaping its leadership and culture. Building and maintaining these constructive relationships requires ongoing effort, especially with the changes brought by annual board elections, appointments, and shifts in executive management. While each has distinct roles, collaboration is key to achieving shared goals.
How can boards and staff work together effectively in regulatory leadership that serves and protects the public interest? What are best and promising practices?
Shona McGlashan of McGlashan Consulting Inc. will open this workshop with an interactive session 'Aligning the Stars: Effective Board and Management Dynamics'. This session will benefit anyone who serves on, or works with, boards of directors. We’ll discuss how to create a joint leadership culture that advances your organization’s goals, what boards want from management, and what management wants from their boards. We’ll consider strategies and actions for effective decision-making, what builds trust in the boardroom, and what can disrupt it. Attendees will leave the session with an appreciation of how board culture, information flows, and governance processes impact decision-making. Attendees will also take away pragmatic suggestions for board and management actions and behaviours that build a strong and collaborative governance culture.
Following the opening session, a panel of members from the regulatory community will
engage in discussion about effective board and staff relationships. Drawing from their work and experience in different roles and different sizes of regulatory organizations, the panelists will share insights, strategies, and actions for what makes for effective board and staff relations in the regulatory context. Panelists will draw on circumstances that have gone well and when challenges have arisen. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the panelists in a Q & A. The discussion will be moderated by Sam Lanctin, Principal, Sam Lanctin Consultant and CNAR Board Director, with panelists:
Brian Munday, Executive Director, Alberta Land Surveyors’ Association (ALSA)
Claudette Marie Warren, Chair, College of Massage Therapists of Newfoundland and Labrador (CMTNL)
Lara Thacker, Governance Specialist, Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario (RCDSO), and
Ruth McHugh, Chair, College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (CPATA) and Chair, CPA Alberta.
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Venue: Virtual (link to be provided to registrants closer to the event date)
Who should attend? This workshop is open to anyone from the regulatory community. It will be of particular interest to chairs, vice chairs, and members of regulatory boards and committees, executive directors, registrars and others in management roles, and staff whose work supports boards and committees, as well as anyone interested in regulatory governance and leadership practices.
Be sure to renew your CNAR membership today to receive discounted access to this event!
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