Archive for January, 2011

Jean’s Consultation and Consultative Decision Making Model

Why are Consultation and Consultative Processes important?

There are words used in Nonprofit organisations and SMEs that sometimes lose their original meaning and intent: or that can infer their original meaning and intent – but actually mean something quite different.  …

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Delegation of Authority from a Nonprofit Board to the CEO

Authority and delegated authority are core components of a formal organisational structure.

Authority is defined as the power or right to control, judge, or to permit or prohibit the actions of others.

Delegated authority is the documented nature and extent …

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Role and Function of a Peak Body – from the perspective of a Peak Body’s Board and CEO

A Peak Body is only as strong as its membership base.  

The primary challenge for any Peak Body has three equal components:

  1. member recruitment,
  2. member loyalty, and
  3. membership renewal.  

It is therefore essential that these two questions are uppermost in …

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Theoretical Quality Framework for Nonprofits and SMEs

There are specific tools, each with its own core principles and practices, that allow a Theoretical Framework to be adapted by and for specific workplaces – whether Nonprofit or SME.    

This article features a Theoretical Quality Framework, and others are …

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Theoretical Frameworks – why we need them in governance and management

Nonprofit organisations (and SMEs) are wise to work within a theoretical framework:

  • a theory is defined as a system of rules, procedures and assumptions used to produce a result,
  • a framework is defined as a structure or frame supporting or

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