Collegiate leadership is perhaps the most challenging of contexts. The leadership role of the Board means the Chair leads a team of leaders. This seminar considers the specific role of the Chair in relation to

• The Board’s role in setting strategy 
  
• The Board’s responsibility to stretch, challenge and support the Executive team to deliver that strategy and
  
• The onus on the Board to ‘practice what it preaches’; to model the culture and behaviour it wants to see in the organisation. 
  

Particular attention is paid to the concept of the Chief Executive and Chair as partners in good governance, where

• The Chair sets the tone as far as board activity is concerned
  
• The Chief Executive sets the tone in way organisation is managed, its values and the way it does business

Content includes 

Leading in meetings

• Reviewing chairing skills and styles 
  
• Handling diversity and difference in board discussions 
  
• Building an inclusive culture 
  
• Ways to increase participation and improve decision making 

Leading outside of meetings

• The Chair’s role in exercising accountability 
  
• The ambassadorial role 
  
• Preparing for and structuring meetings with the Chief Executive for best effect