In times of recession, Corporate Governance, is important to ensure effectiveness and accountability. CorGuv believes that these principles are equally well applied at departmental leadership level:

1. Mission Definition: Should be done at senior leadership level and include services, value, and improvement of staff.


2. Mission Implementation: Senior leadership must make sure the mission is achieved. This requires high professionalism and dedication.


3. Leadership Team's Function: Ensure absolute clarity about what the senior leadership is supposed to be doing and ensure these against its collective comptenecies.


4. The Leader's job: Be clear about the job of the CEO/Leader and their relative importance: mission development, strategy, operational framework, efficiency, and organisational design are key areas.


5. Independent Advisors/Directors: Build the use of an external view in filling in specific comptencies, challenging and improving decisions.


6. Promote Transparency: Within and without your organisation ensure that you have information that is representative of reality and that it is pro-actively transparent to all those that need to know.