Latest Governance Insights & Resources
The Importance of Organisation Wide Governance – Webinar
To help kick off the 2021 Governance Evaluator webinar series our Founder & CEO Fi Mercer discussed the importance of good governance at all levels of your organisation, and the key risks of not taking this holistic approach, with Leading Age Services Australia’s...
Fi Mercer Chats with Claire Braund
Governance Evaluator has partnered with Women on Boards to provide their members with access to our high quality, cost efficient way to improve the governance within their organisation and enhance director effectiveness.As part of our launch, Governance Evaluator's...
Compliance Governance and the Need for a Fourth Line of Defence Model
Blog by Brendan Moore, General Manager Member Services, Leading Age Services Australia.Featured in the Winter 2020 LASA Fusion Magazine Aged care governing bodies need independent audits to reassure them of operational compliance. All organisations engage independent,...
Case Study – Supporting Resilient Governance
At Governance Evaluator, we have been talking a lot about Resilient Governance over the last few blog posts and webinars, in particular as a skill required for leading through these unprecedented COVID-19 times. Overall, we have learnt that resilience isn’t built in a...
Data Driven Governance Insights – Continuity is the Key to Remaining Resilient
A common theme over our last few blog posts has been continuity, whether that be evaluation, education or development. The only way to see improvement is to keep coming back. As we touched on in last month’s webinar (which you can watch here)...
Data Driven Governance Insights – Governance Resilience
As we started to touch on in last month’s blog post, year three is a magic number in the evaluation journey. The third year is when we see surface level issues, such as risk management, board meetings and agendas, and governance systems and processes, resolving...
Data Driven Governance Insights – Why is three the magic number?
Our Governance Evaluator Crowd Governance Data is a wonderful resource for evaluating, trending, and benchmarking data that delivers powerful insights into governance. What we are seeing is that ongoing evaluation produces consistently improving results,...
Risk Management and Compliance identified as top five risk by boards in 2019
The Governance Evaluator 2019 Benchmark Report analysed evaluations from 92 boards comprising of 777 members across a range of sectors, with Risk Management and Compliance being identified as one of the top five risks for boards. Boards noted their areas for...
How this regional health board transformed new director induction to drive a culture of contribution
Introduction Our client is a leading provider of Health and Community services in regional Victoria. Government appointments of a new chair and four new directors in recent years resulted in a reduction in organisational...
Stakeholder Engagement still a concern for many boards – find out what boards have done to build their capabilities in 2019
The Governance Evaluator 2019 Benchmark Report has identified for the second year in a row Stakeholder Engagement as the number one risk for boards. An analysis completed by Governance Evaluator looked at boards who have improved their performance year-on-year in...
Governance Evaluator and the ACHG partner up for the benefit of VHA members
Governance Evaluator and The Australian Centre for Healthcare Governance (ACHG) are excited to announce a new initiative for building strong governance in the health sector. Our newly formed partnership combines the proven approach of Governance Evaluator’s...
Good governance goes beyond the board – how to ensure your sub-committees are working for you
Why are sub-committees so important? For many boards, sub-committees are where the bulk of the board’s work actually takes place. Sub-committees enable a board to ‘divide and conquer’ by distributing the detailed planning and oversight of each of the board’s many...
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