Micro-course: Building the Governance Backbone

What I will learn?

  • What governance means in the context of rewards and recognition programs and why it must be built deliberately
  • How to construct an accountability structure that assigns ownership at the right level of specificity
  • Why oversight mechanisms must be designed alongside the program, not added after launch
  • How to define decision rights so that execution does not stall or fragment
  • What sustainability requires of a governance model as programs mature and scale
  • How to recognize the structural gaps most likely to undermine R&R governance in practice

Course Curriculum

Building the Governance Backbone

  • Building the Governance Backbone
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About Course

Governance does not emerge from good intentions or strong leadership. It is built through deliberate decisions about structure, authority, accountability and oversight that are made before the work begins and maintained as the work evolves. For rewards and recognition programs, the governance backbone is what separates initiatives that produce lasting cultural change from those that generate short-term activity without lasting impact. This micro-course examines the foundational components of governance as they apply to R&R programs: what governance actually requires, how accountability structures are constructed, why oversight mechanisms must be designed alongside the program itself and what it takes to sustain governance as programs grow in scope and complexity. 

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