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How to Have Your Best Board Meeting Ever!March 1, 2010

Facilitator

Michael KumerExecutive Director,

Nonprofit Leadership Institute

Moderator

Allison JonesNonprofit Leadership Institute

Inspiring excellence in community leadership

Are you lonely?Don’t like working on your own?

Hate making decisions?

Then call a MEETING!!!You can…

SEE peopleDRAW flowchartsFEEL importantFORM subcommitteesIMPRESS your colleaguesMAKE meaningless recommendations

ALL on COMPANY TIME!!!

MEETINGS…The practical alternative to work

Board Meetings or B-O-R-E-D Meetings?

What are Meetings For?

Decision Making!!!

What Drives the Agenda?

•Vision

•Mission

•Plan

Two Weeks Before the Meeting…

•Request recommendations from the board (place only items of critical importance on the Agenda)

•Request one page summaries of all committee reports, Executive Director reports, minutes, etc.

One Week Before the Meeting…

•Forward the Agenda (and all reports)

Zero-based Aural Reports (in the Meeting)

But what about

fiduciary oversight?

What is the Consent Agenda?

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MinutesFocused on Decisions and Accountability

•What?

•Who?

•When?

One Week Following the Meeting (or Sooner!)…

•Forward the minutes (1-2 pages)

•Devote part of each meeting to ongoing education (governance best practices and/or something about the organization

•Robert’s Rules or Roberta’s Rules

•Evaluate the meeting; use the results to improve future meetings

•Location, attendance, seating and scheduling

Resources

Nonprofit Leadership Institutewww.duq.edu/nli412.396.6231

Ten Quick Ways to Improve Board Meetingshttp://www.compasspoint.org/boardcafe/details.php?id=16

Consent Agendashttp://www.boardsource.org/Knowledge.asp?ID=3.70