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Vision Statement Quotations  Help your associates and colleagues be on “the same page.”

Board Meeting Governance Assessment    Use meeting agenda to assess your governance practices.

7 Principles of taking and recording Board Meeting Minutes

15 Tips for Improving Board Productivity

Board Consent Agenda Fact Sheet Criteria and practices that can save your board lots of time

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 electronically using a portal.

Model Board Business Meeting Agenda A modern-day agenda to address the future more than the past. See strategic issues below.

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.

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

Sample Dashboard A dashboard can be as simple as this: a few key monitoring points a board says are key to them. It can also consttute a management’s dashboard. This is a financial dashboard; others can be established to monitor other results and progress.

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

Vision Statement Properties What company vision statements should be, and not be, for maximum effect.

 

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