I enjoy reading Board articles that start of with ‘Red Flag” A Story[1]: The board of a certain co-operative was holding its regular quarterly board meeting. One of the main
This is am excellant article from Glen Tecker Is it Time to Re-Structure Your Governance? For a variety of reasons, a growing number of associations are restructuring governance to increase
My May newsletter will be dealing with ‘conflict of interest’ however I am blogging a brief article on it in quick response to a number of questions that arose at
How many times have you heard the expression ‘its so hard to get our members to come to our AGM, we barely have a quorum’? I hear it way too
How many of you use a timed agenda? A new client asked me to observe one of their monthly Board meetings and offer some guidance on ensuring their future meetings
Board meetings can move faster and more productive by adding the appropriate items to a consent agenda. A consent agenda is one in which several appropriate items are ‘lumped ‘into
Some Boards have a hard time making decisions. Certainly some decision making does need to take the appropriate time, with accurate information and healthy debate occurring. There are times when
Is Your Organization Going Through a Dilution of Powers? In an organization governed by a nonprofit Board of Directors much of the ‘power’ can de diluted as it
Many of you have moved to an online storage system for your meeting minutes, procedure manuals etc. Actually many of you moved to a system ‘many’ years ago……… Others of
A business colleague from Jacksonville, Florida, Tom Morrison sent me this article from his newsletter which he named “From Relevance to to Revolution, Its Now or Never” Why the Traditional
