09.2022

Sellafield Ltd have asked Socia to carry out their tri-annual external Board review. Socia worked with the Sellafield Board in 2019 to successfully complete their previous Board review. Sellafield Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the NDA and the site licence...

06.2022

Socia has been awarded a contract to review the Ordnance Survey Board. Ordnance Survey is a Government owned company with a history of mapping the UK going back over 200 years. It maintains the most accurate and up-to-date set of spatial data covering the whole...

What Boards are missing in lockdown

With the first steps out of lockdown, Boards are reflecting on the positives and minuses of virtual working over the last year. Here we summarise their challenge as they look ahead. Virtual working has helped Board efficiency First the positives. Board members have...

What do we talk about when we talk about trust?

Inter-organisational trust is different to inter-personal trust. In human relationships we use the language of trust when we talk about personal loyalty, of people caring for each other in sickness and in health, and always looking after a friend’s best interests. But...

Not knowing and still leading – February reflections

“TS Elliot may have said that April is the cruellest month – but February is giving it a run for its money this year” There’s no doubt that leading an organisation is a tough job right now – as that quote from a colleague shows. And there’s nothing...

Leadership lessons for a New Year

The turn of the year is always a time for both looking back, reflecting on the highs and lows of the last 12 months and looking forward with hope to the Spring to come. Given the exceptional circumstances of 2020 it’s all too easy to want to put last year behind us as...