Board agenda packets tend to get bloated over time. It’s hard to remove items once they get in there. We get use to seeing them and fear removing them: maybe they’re required? how would we look taking it out after all these years? What if something happens?

As a result, packets tend to weigh more than they ought to. More importantly, material relevant to fiduciary duties gets buried under irrelevant, low-level and trivial material.

WARNING: As organizations join the “green” movement, or desire greater productivity, the effort to deliver the Board’s information online does not resolve the above issue about focus and relevance. Going to E-Governance before reinventing the board’s knowledge base can make conditions worse. Consider what management consultant and author Peter Drucker once wrote …

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Philosophies

Directors have a fiduciary responsibility and want to avoid legal entanglements. As the world becomes more complex and remains in a state of regulatory flux, a director needs to focus more on what is truly important based on external pressures and your plans. We respect your uniqueness; no two organizations are alike even though operating in the same field of endeavor.

Customized to suit your board’s culture and your plans.

Benefits of a Lighter Packet

• Directors focus on and spend more time on critical, big-picture strategic issues … looking forward;
• Directors save hundreds of hours yearly;
• Agenda materials inspire study and make more sense to the creative Board of the 21st Century; and
• Executive and administrative time are reduced — imagine the monetary value of that!

Improve the Board’s whole knowledge management system.

Receive objective views and innovative ideas from a long-time professional. Allow your “weight trainer,” Dan Clark, CCUE, to help you as he has many others, including where he once hung his coat: “When I was a credit union CEO, we cut the agenda packet in half, down to about 35 pages: the directors were happier and more knowledgeable because the minutiae was gone.”

 Programs and Fees

Basic Program

Pay the fee of $250 for this one time analysis. Use our proprietary evaluation rubric. Review your findings in a coaching session with me. New subscribers to E-Governance can obtain this service for only $49.00.

• Click here to pay by credit card. You will receive instructions on getting started with your own copy of the proprietary evaluation rubric. We’ll also set the day and time for the coaching call. 
• In 90-days and before the coaching call, if you want to upgrade to one of the other programs, we’ll credit $200 toward the new program.  

Silver Program

Pay the fee of $550 for this one-time analysis. We will examine your packets and prepare a detailed report identifying the materials you can delete and the enhancements to make the remainder better for your board.
      New subscribers to E-Governance can obtain this service for only $49.00.
      Request this service with a planning or training project and save $100.00.

Click to pay here by credit card.

Follow the simple five-Step Process outlined below.

Gold Program

Pay the one-time Gold fee of $750 for the Silver Program plus a conference call to review the recommendations; Add $60 to use our toll-free conference call service.

Request this service with a planning or training project and save $150.00.

Follow the simple five-Step Process outlined below.

Platinum Program

Pay the one-time Platinum fee of $950 for the Gold Program plus a conference call before the analysis to clarify project expectations and anticipated issues.

To use our toll-free conference call service, add  $120 to cover both calls.

Request this service with a planning or training project and save $200.00.

Follow the simple five-Step Process outlined below.

100% Risk Free!     

If after one year you are not satisfied that I saved you more time and money than the fee, you’ll get your money back just for asking. There’s nothing to lose, excepted except pounds of paper, wasted time, … and everything to gain, including reduced liability risk for directors.

Save 20% off the Silver, Gold and Platinum Programs when you take it in combination with policy development or planning.

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Here’s our simple, five-step process for Silver, Gold and Platinum:

Gather up these documents:

• Two typical, recent, and complete board agenda packets (include a quarter-end) just the way the directors received it; if delivered electronically, once we have a signed agreement and my confidentiality committment, you’ll guide me in to see what I need to see.
• A copy of your plans (vision, strategic, and long-range).
• Excerpts of Board Governance Policies delegating authority to the CEO and committees.

Order a check for the chosen program fee payable to Dan Clark Associates LLC (unless you paid for Basic or Silver on your credit card); remember to include funds to cover toll-free conference access if you want it.

Mail the check and the prescribed documents to:
Weight-Loss Trainer, Dan Clark Associates LLC,  4156 Pond Cypress Court, Tallahassee, FL 32310-6357

Notify me by e-mail dan@danclark.com that your package is on its way. Include the name, position, e-mail address and day-time phone number for my primary contact during the project.

Print this page to make a record of this confidentiality commitment: Dan Clark Associates LLC — Dan Clark, his associates, affiliates and staff — will treat all proprietary information you provide as confidential; we will not make copies of or distribute to others the information contained in the documents submitted for the purpose of this analysis. All your documents will be returned following the project.

Upon receipt of the requested documents, we will contact you with the projected delivery date – usually two to four weeks. The report will identify the essentials based on our understanding of the ubiquitous needs of credit union directors, and your unique plans and policies. You will receive a list of materials that could and should be eliminated.