Friday Selection Box: 19th April 2024

Leading good board conversations about finance

A webinar with the ICAEW charity community on this important topic.  Membership of the community is open to everyone including non-ICAEW members.

Some useful ideas on managing conflict from your board  

The context of the article is the private sector but the insights hold for the social purpose sector too.

When pressure and power meet in the types of topics usually discussed between a board and the CEO, one way to keep your footing is to name the pressures, set the tone, and then connect not just with those who echo your thoughts but with everyone else around the table too.

Reinventing Organizations: In many ways, I believe this is all just the beginning

Interesting interview with Frederic Laloux. Worth rereading – or reading the book if you haven’t come across it before.

Volunteering in 2024 and Beyond: Inspire, Engage, Celebrate – Online conference

One for the diary if volunteering is of interest – online conference, Wednesday 22nd May 2024.

The Glass Heart

Wonderful exhibition exploring glass at Two Temple Place – closes on 21st April.

Beginning in the mid-19th century, and plotting key moments through the UK’s glassmaking history, glass is presented here as an experimental art form for today alongside work from those collections that have grown out of the heartlands of a historic industry. 

The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden

As we inch ever closer to spring like weather you might want to visit this gem in Surrey.

Questions, questions…

Email is a great tool but it is shaping our behaviour in unhealthy and unproductive ways; how can we use it better?

HR is now about so much more than just contracts and paperwork.  How can we change mindsets and upskill ourselves to take advantage of what good HR can bring to our organisations and mission?

What stories are not being told that should be?