The Committee Room

Someone has just been elected to the committee. They turn up to their first meeting excited and ready to contribute. Nobody introduces them. Nobody explains what they're supposed to do. Three months later they're still not sure what their role is or whether they've made any difference at all. In this episode Kate H and Kate M unpack the three dimensions of committee responsibility — organisational...

Before you can govern well, you need the right people around the table. But most committees are structured the way they are because that's what the constitution says, or because that's how it's always been done. Neither is a good enough reason. In this episode Kate H and Kate M tackle committee composition from the ground up — the three committee models and when each one makes sense, why seven to...

It's 8pm on a Tuesday. You're in a community hall that smells of burned coffee and the meeting was supposed to start an hour ago. If that sounds familiar, this podcast is for you. Kate Hartwig and Kate McPhee are governance consultants who've spent decades helping volunteer committees stop doing things the hard way. In this first episode they explain what governance actually is, why it matters, an...