Committees in the public eye
Chairing committees, scrutiny and minutes.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Where
- Chairing Meetings, Boards and Committees
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
A committee is not a smaller board. This module looks at how purpose shapes the chairing of audit, scrutiny, planning, remuneration and stakeholder committees, with particular attention to the questioning discipline of scrutiny. It covers public participation and disruption, why the public are not an audience, and remote, hybrid and multi-location meetings, where Wales and England have taken different legal paths. It closes with the Pwyllgor of Mind Cymru as a Welsh example of devolved governance. Much of a meeting's value is secured or lost once the room empties. This module covers what minutes are for and what good minutes contain, including evidence of challenge, then turns to the action log, handling slippage and closing actions on evidence, drawing on Kauffeld and Lehmann-Willenbrock and Steven Rogelberg. It finishes with the board evaluation cycle and practical ways to review your own chairing, because the best chairs ask how they did. This capstone reads three real cases through the frameworks of the whole topic. Handforth Parish Council's 2020 Zoom meeting shows a fight about authority and process conflict; HBOS shows process without purpose and reassurance in place of assurance; and Clement Attlee's Cabinet of 1945 to 1951 shows a chair holding strong personalities together through committees, brevity and summing up. It closes with the principle of chairing for the decision the room will have to live with.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish how the chairing of audit, scrutiny, planning, remuneration and stakeholder committees should differ according to their purpose.
- Plan a scrutiny session and a public meeting that keep to evidence, treat witnesses and the public fairly, and handle disruption proportionately.
- Explain the four jobs that minutes do and identify what good minutes should contain, including brief evidence of challenge.
- Use the action log to keep owners and dates real, handle slippage and close actions on evidence.
- Explain how unclear authority and process conflict caused the Handforth meeting to break down, and identify how settling who presides helps prevent this.
The Modules.
1 hour 45 minutes of learning.
- 07Chairing Committees, Scrutiny and Public MeetingsA committee is not a smaller board. This module looks at how purpose shapes the chairing of audit, scrutiny, planning, remuneration and stakeholder committees, with particular attention to the questioning discipline of scrutiny. It covers public participation and disruption, why the public are not an audience, and remote, hybrid and multi-location meetings, where Wales and England have taken different legal paths. It closes with the Pwyllgor of Mind Cymru as a Welsh example of devolved governance.36 min
- 08After the Meeting: Minutes, Actions and Reviewing YourselfMuch of a meeting's value is secured or lost once the room empties. This module covers what minutes are for and what good minutes contain, including evidence of challenge, then turns to the action log, handling slippage and closing actions on evidence, drawing on Kauffeld and Lehmann-Willenbrock and Steven Rogelberg. It finishes with the board evaluation cycle and practical ways to review your own chairing, because the best chairs ask how they did.32 min
- 09Applied Case Studies: CapstoneThis capstone reads three real cases through the frameworks of the whole topic. Handforth Parish Council's 2020 Zoom meeting shows a fight about authority and process conflict; HBOS shows process without purpose and reassurance in place of assurance; and Clement Attlee's Cabinet of 1945 to 1951 shows a chair holding strong personalities together through committees, brevity and summing up. It closes with the principle of chairing for the decision the room will have to live with.33 min
Keep going.
Part of the Chairing Meetings, Boards and Committees topic, also sold whole as In the chair.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 45 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Chairing in the open, 3 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, In the chair, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Governing with confidence, Serving your community well, Holding to account
