By Advanced Boardroom Excellence for HR Magazine, 30 April 2015
For the second in the HR Magazine governance insight series, Helen Pitcher chairman of Advanced Boardroom Excellence focuses on what makes an effective board and where the influences and pressures on boards are emerging from.
By Advanced Boardroom Excellence for HR Magazine, 21 Apr 2015
In this article for HR Magazine, Helen Pitcher chairman of Advanced Boardroom Excellence, explains that good governance informs and improves the HRD’s effectiveness in their day-to-day role, so in turn, the HRD’s areas of expertise in the boardroom can help colleagues to understand how best to implement the company’s overall strategic plan.
by Jock Encombe
A Developing Leaders Quarterly article
Issue 18: 2015
The performance expectations placed on CEOs are immense and can be overwhelming, even for the most robust individual. Jock Encombe's article for the Developing Leaders explores the need for effective CEO coaching and tries to identify what is distinctive about this type of training. The article draws on the author’s experience and interviews with three leading UK-based coaches.
An article by Carly Chynoweth for The Sunday Times originally published on 26 October 2014
When some non-executives are elected as ‘lay’ directors, the chairman may need to fill in gaps in their knowledge and stop top-level bullying.
IMAGE: Lesley-Anne Alexander, chairwoman of Acevo, where most of the board is elected by the members, says she appoints extra directors to fill any gaps (Akira Suemori)
The shortlisted finalists for this years Hr NETWORK National Awards 2014 will soon be announced ahead of the Nominees lunch taking place in October. Advanced Boardroom Excellence are sponsoring this year's CEO Award.
The Hr NETWORK National Awards are the largest and most prestigious HR awards in Scotland. Launched in early 2007, the awards are designed to recognise, acknowledge and reward the champions of the Scottish HR profession.
Originally published on Friday 19 September 201 at www.heraldscotland.com
BUSINESSES have been warned that excluding women from senior jobs is not just hurting their employees' career prospects - it can be harmful to the company's productivity.
Despite a series of efforts from firms and the Government to improve the prospects of women in the workplace, many companies treat it as a gender issue instead of a problem for the business, consultancy group Advanced Boardroom Excellence (ABE) suggests.
Advanced Boardroom Excellence, leading advisers in developing individual and collective director effectiveness, has today published a research report on diversity, with a focus on female talent in organisations.
The Report looks at this diversity agenda through the eyes of 70 successful women leaders and provides an insight into the extraordinary waste of female talent being overlooked.
The 7th annual RI Europe 2014 was held in London at The Tower Hotel from 3rd to 5th June 2014 and was attended by 500+ delegates.
Helen Pitcher, Advance Boardroom Excellence’s chairman, spoke at the investor-corporate summit on the 4th and 5th June on board diversity and gender: Are today’s corporate boards fit for a fast-moving, mixed economy?
The RI Europe 2014 Post Conference Report is now available (PDF 3.2MB)
The International Women’s Forum (IWF) announced to it’s members that, on the recommendation of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it has been granted ‘Special Consultative Status’ to the United Nations on the issue of the protection and growth of women's leadership.
As part of its Special Consultative Status, IWF and its selected representatives located in UN headquarters in New York and offices in Geneva and Vienna will be asked to:
An article by Dina Medland for The Financial Times
Originally published on Thursday January 30 2014
External evaluation of board strength has become a lucrative business, with many participants and growing concerns about standards.
To address these, a proposed code of practice was launched last week, along with a framework enabling companies and boardroom advisers to work more effectively together.
A City A.M. news article
Originally posted on January 24, 2014 at www.cityam.com
Board evaluations – used by companies to improve their practices in the boardroom – need to be improved according to Helen Pitcher, an expert on corporate governance...
An excerpt from a Board Talk post by Dina Medland
Originally posted on 19 January 2014 at www.dinamedland.com
We could see a real basis for progress by shining an important light into board evaluation - how is it done, who does it, what do they charge, what are their relationships with the people who hire them - ie chairmen of FTSE350 companies? While agreements on confidentiality are important, a cry for 'discretion' can too easily become abusive to a productive boardroom process.
An article by Advanced Boardroom Excellence for The Hawkamah Journal
"...a more fundamental question is answered if we define achievement of Women In Leadership equality as a successful longer term ‘sea change’ in the levels of women on Executive Management Committees and in Senior Leadership roles. This ‘sea change’ will provide the sustainable ‘supply’ of women to Boardrooms as the seed corn for a selection process based on merit thus avoiding the debilitating effect of a ‘tokenism’ label."
