by Rose Mercier | Feb 22, 2024 | Rose Mercier
It is essential that whoever sits around the board table or appears in the squares of the virtual meeting are the ‘right fit’ for the board. It’s the right fit because they have the skills, attributes, experience and commitment the board needs to govern...
by Rose Mercier | Feb 9, 2023 | Rose Mercier
One of the fundamental roles of a board is to protect the organization. If you are serving on a board today, you know this is not a simple undertaking. You are governing an organization in an increasingly volatile, complex, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) context....
by The Governance Coach™ | Oct 13, 2022 | Jannice Moore, Richard Stringham, Rose Mercier, The Governance Coach
To have board committees or not to have board committees? That is the question. Three Policy Governance consultants talk about the pros and cons in this quick panel...
by Rose Mercier | Mar 31, 2022 | Rose Mercier
I think it’s fair to say that learning and understanding monitoring can be a steep curve for both board and CEO. It’s a bit of an unknown process to most boards when they start their Policy Governance® journey. The mere mention of monitoring at a board meeting can...
by Rose Mercier | Mar 3, 2022 | Rose Mercier
I draft a lot of documents – reports, articles like this one, policies, memos, letters, bylaws, social media posts, etc. If you write a lot, it is easy to get caught up in trying to find the precise words to say what you mean. The dictionary defines ‘wordsmith’ as “an...
