Chapter FifteenGovernance RelationshipsThe CSE and the Board

Richard Yep, CAE, FASAE

Overseeing the organization's budget, project management, finding the right mix of staff, and ensuring that the trains run on time may once have been the main purview of the successful association CSE. However, with the evolution of a much more sophisticated and engaged volunteer leadership, coupled with a competition to attract and retain organizational and individual members, today's CSEs must focus on the relationships they maintain with those in their volunteer leadership in order to ensure organizational success.

The traditional organizational chart delineates the CSE as subordinate to the governing body of the organization. In actuality, the board is ...

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