Are you an established Chief Executive with an incoming Chair? Are you an established Chair with an incoming Chief Executive? Are you both new together? How will you work together? I bet that wherever you are in this scenario, you are already making assumptions. S/he/they will do this; s/he/they will do that. And do you ever test out those assumptions. Probably not. We all make assumptions all the time – sometimes unconsciously. But make them we do. So – we’ve made an assumption. So has the...

Does any organisation have a perfect board? Of course we’d like to say that the answer is “Yes!” But I spend much of my professional life working with Boards, and their senior staff and I must say I’m beginning to wonder. We’ve all been to training sessions for trustees – indeed I often deliver them. They are full of useful tips, processes, strategies, legal responsibilities, theories – you name it, we cover it! But – and it’s a big but – the thing that is often overlooked is the personality...