Developing High Quality Board Manual and Policy Suite

Conscious Governance can undertake a desktop audit of your existing Board level policies to establish their standard and what may be missing.

We have developed many Governance Manuals and Board Policy Suites, based on our extensive experience with best practice standards for good governance, utilising some of the very best Governance and policy material available.

The electronic Governance Manual and Board Policy Suite will feature an agreed set of documents which may include:

• Rationale for Governance Charter

• Organisation profile and history

• Purpose, Vision and Objectives and how to use them

• About the Board

• Overview of important documents and how to use them (Constitution, strategic plan, annual report, Governance Charter)

• Governance Charter

• ByLaws

• Role of the Board

• Induction Program

• Governance Practices

• Role of the Chair

• Role of SubCommittees

• Board-CEO Relationship

• Governance Policies - Legislative and Compliance

• Governance Policies - Board Operations (including emerging areas such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy and Environmental, Social and Governance Policy)

• Operational Policies - affecting Directors

• Operational Policies - not affecting Directors

• Others as agreed

Informed by the analysis of the existing documentation, a draft Governance Manual and Board Policy Suite will be provided for approval by the Governance subcommittee. The final graphics, visual layout and hyperlinks to organisational documents will be the responsibility of the organisation.