Governance Principles
This principle requires leaders to answer for their decisions and actions
What is accountability?
A governance issue that can occur when people do not understand who is responsible for making decisions
What is unclear roles and responsibilities?
This group is responsible for governance and strategic oversight
What is the Executive Board?
This organization's governance crisis raised questions about transparency, oversight and stakeholder trust
What is Hockey Canada?
This activity explored how information, participation, and influence affect decision-making.
What is the Decision-Making Under Constraints exercise? (accept also, first exercise)
This principle ensures information is shared openly and appropriately
What is transparency?
A common warning sign that trust in leadership is declining
What is poor communication or lack of transparency?
This type of work focuses on long-term priorities and organizational direction
What is strategic work/priorities?
This Chicago-based union reform moment focused on member engagement and Leadership accountability.
What is CORE?
People experience governance through these things rather than through policies alone.
What are information sharing, participation, trust, accountability, and decision-making?
This principle requires leaders to act in the best interest of the organization
What is fiduciary duty?
This type of risk can damage public confidence even when no laws have been broken
What is reputational risk?
This type of work focuses on day-to-day implementation and administration
What is organizational direction?
This union changed its leadership election process following concerns about accountability
What is the UAW?
Good governance is often judged not only by outcomes, but by confidence in this.
What is the decision-making process?
This principle focuses on ensuring members' voices are represented in decision-making
What is representation?
Governance problems rarely appear overnight. They are often preceded by these
What are warning signs?
When Board members become involved in day-to-day management, they may be crossing this boundary.
What is the governance - management boundary?
Across all three case studies, this governance theme appeared repeatedly
What is trust? (accept accountability/transparency)
A governance system is most likely to be tested during periods of conflict, controversy, or difficult _______.
What are decisions?
This governance principle focuses on long-term direction rather than day-to-day operations
What is strategic leadership?
A Board's responsibility to oversee organizational risk before they become larger problems is called this.
What is oversight?
Good governance requires leaders to focus on organizational interests instead of these.
What are personal interests or individual agendas or their Local's agenda
The purpose of the case study was to identify these
What are governance lessons or governance risks?
According to today's workshop, governance is not a document. It is this.
What is how we make decisions, share information, build trust, exercise accountability, and fulfill our responsibilities?