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7 Principles of taking and recording Board Meeting Minutes    

15 Tips for Improving Board Productivity  

Committees      How are your board committees doing?

Dakota_tribal_wisdom    A humorous send up of leadership strategies all too often employed in organizations.

Dealing with Difficult Directors   Ideas for chairs to use to increase harmony and productivity.

E-Governance    Deliver the board’s monitoring and meeting agenda information electonically using a portal.

Model Business Meeting Agenda   A modern-day agenda to address priorities and suppress trivial matters.
                              See strategic issues below.

Monitoring_Reports  How much information does a board need? And how often? Matrix.

Properties of Visions   What they are and are not.

Model Rules of Order for Board Meetings     This model the best of Robert’s Rules for Small Boards, and avoids the complexity of Robert’s Rules of Order written to control large assemblies, not small boards.

Strategic Issues   A format for a board meeting issues discussion paper. Includes an example.

Special Reports

Develop_New_Dir_Orientation  11-pages. What should be included in orientation for new members of the board?