Meetings

The Board received the new Leadership Team/Executive Board combined work programme format. It was noted that the Capacity Review Phase II work would likely need to be regularly on the Leadership Team agenda for the next few months.

Manon Antoniazzi outlined a new model for the leadership of the Assembly Commission and presented the Terms of Reference for a new Executive Board (EB) and Leadership Group (LG). The membership of EB would consist of the current IRB with the addition of the Head of Communications and the Chair of the new Leadership Group (the Chair role rotating between members on a termly basis). It would continue to execute its duties in governance and oversight. Membership of the LG would include the Chief Executive, the Directors and Chief Legal Adviser, all Heads of Service and the Llywydd’s Policy Advisor. The LG would meet on a monthly basis, to facilitate ‘blue sky’ thinking and provide challenge to strategic decisions made by the EB, but it would not be a decision making body itself. Minutes of the EB meetings would be shared with the LG.

Management Board members had already met with Manon individually to discuss their views. A more formal consultation over the following two weeks would invite Heads and other stakeholders, including the secretariats, to make any representations to her before implementing the new structure.

The Board discussed in more detail how the agendas for the Leadership Group might be set and a mode of communication between the two groups and with staff. Manon invited a volunteer for the first Chair.