A provocative article this week.<\/p>\n
As a volunteer trustee, if you stopped attending your board or\u00a0 committee meetings & stopped any other involvement with your organisation \u2013 would anyone miss you?<\/p>\n
I mean, would the organisation suffer? Take a step backwards? Stop moving forward?<\/p>\n
Would board meetings be less productive? Would less be planned or achieved?<\/p>\n
Would staff or volunteers in the organisation notice a difference now, next month, next year, if you were playing no part in the strategic work of the board?<\/p>\n
A tough question.\u00a0 But if you ask yourself it you might start checking up on why you actually are on that board at all.\u00a0 What skills and experience and perspective are you bringing along.\u00a0 What do you contribute to the conversations and discussions and decisions?\u00a0 What style do you bring?<\/p>\n
If there\u2019s even a partially negative response here, then perhaps it\u2019s time to change this.\u00a0 Do you need new skills? Or just to engage more (or differently).\u00a0 Can you make yourself valuable?<\/p>\n
Charities and voluntary\/community groups need every angle these days to ensure they survive, thrive and propser.\u00a0 Are you contributing the very best you can?<\/p>\n