Success in developing an effective policy leadership capability will ensure a Management
Committee has:

• an effective process for conducting its own business and a mechanism through which it can articulate its own values and preferences concerning the way it wishes to operate;
• a clearer sense of where its own focus and effort should be directed;
• an effective process and mechanism for strategic direction and priority setting;
• a high degree of leverage over the organisation’s performance without unnecessary involvement in operational detail or activity;
• a clear framework to define the accountability and authority of different components of the organisation structure;
• clarified and provided direction to the roles and responsibilities of those in governance and management roles and assisted those with multiple responsibilities (e.g. a Management Committee member who is also a volunteer worker) to be conscious of their different responsibilities when “changing hats”;
• established clear performance expectations and empowered the GM to deliver desired outputs and to achieve the necessary operational performance standards, within a framework of acceptable risk defined by the Management Committee.