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September is a natural reset for most organisations. Teams are back to full capacity, the final quarter is approaching, and whatever sat quietly over August is now back in action. For HR teams, it also marks the run-up to another set of changes.  From 1 October, the...

The boardroom often feels different in August.  It may mean a paper is postponed until September, a decision left sitting on the action tracker a little longer, a forecast quietly revisited outside the formal cycle, or a strategy session held without a board paper in...

Not every open action is a problem.  Boards and committees deal with complex matters and it’s evitable that some actions require external input, further analysis, legal advice, management review or more time than originally expected. There will always be actions that...

A board pack rarely changes by accident.  Recent research found that the average board pack now runs to 226 pages. That is a lot of information for any board to work through and a lot of places for something important to hide.  A supplementary finance paper issued...

For years, the conversation around AI has been driven by a single, unsettling question: is it coming for our jobs?  For Executive Assistants, the question has felt particularly loaded: is this technology here to support us, or to replace us? AI has been quietly...

The three words that appear on every agenda. And the three words that can quietly undermine a meeting's governance.  "Does anyone have any other business to declare?"  It is one of the most familiar lines in any boardroom. AOB sits at the end of the agenda and yet, in...