The world outside of a board room offers increasing challenges. Boards must assure their organizations will survive and excel. Board meetings bring the power of the board, the wisdom of directors and the expertise of management together. A board meeting is the ‘epicenter’ of the organization’s future, its ‘ends,’ while directors also monitor the status and performance of management, its ‘means.’

Typical rules of order, while important to large assemblies, are impractical for small boards. And they often help to crowd out imaginative thinking and visioning.

Learn what “Roberts Rules Newly Revised” offers for board meeting rules. See how a less formal structure can enhance your board’s performance as a decision maker and a planner. Effectively blend the metrics of performance while envisioning the future.

Learn:

• Productivity-enhancing alternatives to Roberts Rules of Order.
• How to act on items more quickly, yet diligently, to build pace and momentum.
• What the minutes need to record for actions to be “legal.”

 

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Program Length — Makes a good 1.25-hour breakout. It can easily be taught in 60 minutes or stretched to fill a 90-minute slot.

Primary Audience: Directors, especially chairs; Executives; board-involved executie assistants.
As a private workshop for one organization, the ideal (negotiable) includes all directors, managers who usually attend, internal auditors and audit committee members.

Other Notes: This workshop can be expanded by becoming more experiential. In a private workshop for one organization we can practice less formal procedures in a mock-meeting.