My journey from executive to volunteer executive recruiter
As a company director with executive responsibility for the human capital of a multi-national organisation, I was well attuned to dealing, among other matters, with senior-level recruitment across five continents.
This globe-trotting role had been my ‘life’ for many years. Therefore, as I approached ‘retirement’ and relocation to Surrey, I was rather apprehensive about how I [...]
The Four Levels of Volunteering
My experience over the last year of volunteering within various organisations has led me to the view that there at least four different types of volunteering.
The first level is an organisation consisting purely of volunteers. It has been estimated, for example, that there are over 49,000 formally organised amateur arts groups across the country with [...]
More than risk and red tape
Andrew Hind, former Charity Commission chief executive spoke about his own experience of being a trustee. This was not a lesson in the red tape of trusteeship, it was the story of how one person was captivated by charities and was willing to work at the tough bits of trusteeship as well as the rewards. It was a great personal story and sobering. But most of all it was oddly encouraging – even those who know can get in over their heads!
Sarah King’s Trustees Week diary
The Big Society – to act or to watch
Small is best (in Mexborough!)
What place does team work have at board level?
Is team work necessary for a Trustee Board? Individuals drivers for engagement with and involvement on a Trustee Board are many and various but generally revolve around “the cause” whether from the perspective of desire to make a difference, first hand impact, familial experience or personal advancement by way of examples. As the drivers are [...]
Removing waste
We so often create waste in our work because we don’t look at our processes and don’t change them when other things in the organisation change. If we asked whether our services are timely, of high quality and at a cost we understand (and can afford), I wonder how much time, money and frustration we would save?