Posts Tagged ‘Board meeting’

“It’s that time again to plan this month’s board meeting agenda.”

If you are an Executive Director, you know that this task comes up at least once a month.
What happens?
We usually pull out last month’s agenda, see what is needed to be added or deleted, and send it out. Some ED’s don’t change anything, not [...]

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where one issue absorbs the entire meeting and the other issues get pushed to the side?
The Executive and I were debriefing after the last Board meeting. The main item on the agenda was a consultant’s presentation on the pro’s and con’s of the unionization of the staff. [...]

When a client agreed several months ago that they wanted to build a power Board of twenty-five, it seemed like this would take years. It turned out to not be so difficult. In September, this agency “could hold their board meetings in a telephone booth”, and now there will be 17 members at our meeting [...]

HOW TO UTILIZE A CONSENT AGENDA

In the last blog I introduced the concept of a Consent Agenda. This blog will deal with how to utilize it and how to introduce the idea to the board.
How does it work?
1. Committee chairs are told they have to write reports to the board and have them [...]

Friends and Colleagues, this stuff I’ve been writing about really works!
Last week at a Board meeting, we saw the impact of the implementation of good board practices when a long time board member said, “We’ve come a long way, baby!” at the end of the meeting. Just a year ago this was a struggling [...]

Is your Board Chair ready to lead the Board?
Every year, thousands of well-meaning and committed volunteers assume the reigns as the Chairman of a Board of Directors. Unfortunately, the great majority of these individuals do not have a clue as to what to do. Most of us have done a very poor job of [...]

Executives too often feel they must drown their nonprofit Board members with information when they present their monthly financial reports.  They feel that this is a way to keep from showing the Board that they are on top of the finances. What they do is completely confuse most Board members who really aren’t interested in [...]