Tagged board meetings
Your challenge: designing an exciting board meeting
Yes, really. An exciting board meeting (retreats count). One that board members look forward to and can’t stop talking about later.
What’s on the agenda? Where would it be? Who’s there?
Please send along your ideas.
Calling in? Tips for better board meetings
One or two of your directors can’t attend the board meeting in person but could attend by phone. As much as you dislike this set up, you’ve got some critical decisions that need the quorum they bring. So you connect them by speaker phone. But this participation feels unsatisfying on both sides. What to do?
How about an inspiring place for your next board meeting
If your meetings are anything like most of the meetings I attend, you’d be happy for a window in that conference room now and then. But what if you could be someplace else? Say, take the board meeting on the road?
A meeting menu from the board chair
The reason I wanted to share this memo is that I think it is good practice for the board chair to frame the upcoming meeting for the board. This memo was sent out in advance of the meeting along with the packet of materials.