4. Your governing body and leadership
This chapter gives you information and ideas about leadership and governing bodies in communities and organisations.
Good leadership is important for achieving better outcomes, whether it be in families, communities, outstations, organisations, businesses, or ceremony and land ownership groups.
Indigenous leaders in the community and in governing bodies of organisations have enormous responsibilities and pressures from many different directions.
Many groups are now working on the best ways to select, support and mentor emerging leaders and building better governing bodies. They’re also working out that different types of leaders can have different responsibilities.
This chapter contains the following topics:
- 4.1 Good leadership
- 4.2 Roles and responsibilities of a governing body
- 4.3 Capacity building for governance
Also:
- Resource 4.1 Check list—The qualities of good leaders
- Resource 4.2 Check-up—Your leadership health
- Resource 4.3 Check list—Roles of an Indigenous governing body
- Resource 4.4 What can we do?—Decision making processes
- Resource 4.5 Check-up—Governing body decision making processes
- Resource 4.6 Check-up—Good capacity building practices for leaders
- Resource 4.7 What can we do?—Capacity development practice for leaders
- Resource 4.8 Tips—Policies to promote effective governance in governing bodies
- Resource 4.9 Check-up—Re-evaluating your leadership succession
- Resource 4.10 Check list—Good practices for succession planning in an organisation
- Resource 4.11 What can we do?—Strategies for succession planning
- Resource 4.12 What can we do?—Building independence and managing growth
- Resource 4.13 Tips—Creating a stable governance environment and strengthening leadership
- Resource 4.15 Quiz
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