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Chair of trustees: how to work effectively with your CEO
Get tips on how to develop and nurture a positive working relationship with your CEO so you can support your trust.
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Our thanks to our associate education experts Julia Skinner, Phil Preston and Brendan Hollyer, for their help with this article.
A good relationship is in everyone’s interests
This is because it'll allow you to:
- Effectively hold your CEO to account
- Monitor the performance of your trust
- Help steer the trust towards its objectives
Build your working relationship on 4 pillars
1. Trust and honesty
You have to be confident that what your CEO is telling you is accurate, and that there’s nothing else going on behind the scenes (get tips on how to develop this trust between you below).
2. Openness
Both of you need to feel that you can talk openly - this will help you to challenge and support your CEO effectively.
3. Mutual respect for each other’s role
Brush up on the differences between your roles
- Academy trust AGM: attendance and agenda
- Academy trustees: legal obligations
- Disqualification of trustees and local governors
- Governance Handbook 2020: summary of changes
- How to embed your scheme of delegation
- How to make sure your local governing bodies are effective and engaged
- How to recruit trustees
- How to write your scheme of delegation
- Members of the trust: appointment, removal and resignation Updated
- Members of the trust: roles and responsibilities
- Model articles of association: 2021 update summary
- Register of people with significant control
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