Governance

Duties and Principles

The term “division” is used to describe a group of related councils that are grouped under that division heading. There are four divisions coinciding with four of the five goals of AGD2010. 

  • Advocacy-Representation Division
  • Continuing Education Division
  • Membership Services Division
  • Public & Professional Relations Division

The Division Coordinator (DC) has the following responsibilities:

  • Keeping the Board, Regional Directors, and AGD leadership informed of their division’s progress.
  • Serving as facilitators to their respective councils to monitor their workload and progress by maintaining constant communication with council chairs to remain up to date on the progress and concerns of their respective councils.
  • Working with their respective council chairs in order to ensure adequate staffing and council and committee member support, to ensure completion of assigned council tasks.
  • Working with their respective council chairs in suggesting and implementing task forces to ensure completion of short term programs within their division’s responsibilities.
  • Attending council meetings within their division and, where deemed necessary, outside their division.  Attend Board meetings as designated by the Executive Committee.
  • Maintaining constant dialogue with their fellow DCs in order to have a working knowledge of programs, workload and progress and, to prevent duplication and overlap of initiatives.
  • Maintaining a division newsletter (e-mail) to keep all officers, staff and chairs current with all council progress and concerns.

Read more about the description and duties of an AGD DC.MS Word

For more information and resources specific to your role as an AGD division coordinator, contact executiveoffice@agd.org.
Governance Principles

The AGD Board of Trustees developed the Eleven Principles of Board Governance to use throughout their meetings. Consider adopting these principals to guide you throughout your delegate experience.

  1. Trusteeship: Sitting in trust for others is the role of the Board. This Board is accountable to those others who could be corporate owners, the community as owners, or members of an association.
  2. Authority resides in the group, not individuals.
  3. A Board decision is speaking with one voice.
  4. Speak positively about the strategic outcomes; stay out of strategies except to restrict or set boundaries for what is acceptable in activities or circumstances. Limitations are stated in the negative.
  5. Decide the most general issues in each area before deciding more specific issues in any area. In creating restraints, the Board is more and more specific when it wants to constrain the choices of the executive director and chairperson. Read all eleven principles.