About Professional Governance Services
Evidence shows that an effective board is a common feature of high performing organisations. Good governance is essential to ensure that you are providing the best possible service to your clients, and those who support you.
Professional Governance Services exists to help you run your board more effectively.
We can work with you to increase your board’s performance by providing support in the following areas:-
- Induction training
- Board assessment and development
- Governance reviews
- Strategy development
- Chair and CEO support
- Board member recruitment
- Mergers
- Complaints systems
- Dispute resolution
“Truly good governance has to be lived. Each and every trustee and board member needs to embrace its values, and apply them to the particular needs and circumstances of their organisation”
Dame Suzi Leather,
Chair, Charity Commission.
Good Governance – A Code for the Voluntary and Community Sector
“Trustees ..carry an important responsibility to manage their organisations and deliver on their objectives in a way that enhances that public trust and support”
Dame Suzi Leather,
Chair, Charity Commission.
Good Governance – A Code for the Voluntary and Community Sector
“It is not simply a case of having a set of procedures and processes, nor is it just about having controls in place. Reliance on a poor control is often worse than having no control at all”
Tony Rawlins
“Corporate governance is not a matter of right or wrong – it is more nuanced than that”
Advocate Johan Myburgh
“The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources”
Sir Adrian Cadbury, Commission Report: Corporate Governance 1992
“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire ..once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again”
Socrates (398 BC)
“..governance is not something that is put in place and then left. Ensuring its effectiveness depends on regular review, preferably regular independent review. Outside assessment and self-assessment need to be regular events“
Jim Jones (Business Day)
“If management is about running the business, governance is about seeing that it is run properly”
Bob Tricker
“Governance and leadership are the yin and the yang of successful organisations. If you have leadership without governance you risk tyranny, fraud and personal fiefdoms. If you have governance without leadership you risk atrophy, bureaucracy and indifference.”
Mark Goyder (Founding Director, Tomorrow’s Company)
