{"id":31,"date":"2012-09-20T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:38:13","slug":"a-board-meeting-should-be-like-a-bowl-of-wheaties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/a-board-meeting-should-be-like-a-bowl-of-wheaties\/","title":{"rendered":"A Board Meeting Should Be Like a Bowl of Wheaties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have a board meeting coming up. \u00a0There&#8217;s <em>always<\/em> a board meeting coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t you just <em>have<\/em> one?<\/p>\n<p>You and your Board Chair meet and you drone through the obvious agenda items. \u00a0It&#8217;s been so long since you&#8217;ve seen Board Member X that you wonder if she is still alive.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re the Board Chair and you&#8217;re thinking that if the Development Director puts up that one slide with those teeny weeny numbers all over it, you will scream. \u00a0You are both bored thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what? You&#8217;re thinking about it all wrong.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">You Need to &#8220;Feed&#8221; Your Board<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Board meetings are not just a series of agenda items or a treasurer report that you only pay attention to if cash flow sucks. It&#8217;s a show! You have to fill your board members&#8217; tanks up with organizational love. It&#8217;s your quarterly &#8220;breakfast of champions&#8221; for your most important organizational champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ideally a board member should leave a board meeting on a sprint; \u00a0rushing home to tell her partner or dog about the important and vital work, about how proud she is. Nay, how <em>lucky<\/em> she feels to have spent the weekend with remarkable colleagues and inspiring staff. She should still have goosebumps.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Put On a Show<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Those of you who are old enough to say that you don&#8217;t read blogs (but take note, you ARE reading this!) will get this reference. A board meeting needs to be like a Mary Kay Cosmetics Convention. Women dancing, cheering and nearly insanely enthusiastic about their work with Mary Kay. Sometimes they bring in celebrities. Sometimes &#8216;the&#8217; Mary Kay comes in via video (she&#8217;s deceased now so I don&#8217;t think they do this anymore.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A CEO colleague once gave me this advice. <em>You need to put on a show.<\/em> And you need to appreciate the heck out of your organization&#8217;s most important ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mary Kay gives its top salespeople pink Cadillacs. No need to go that far but the words &#8220;thank you&#8221; go a long way.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Need Some Ideas? Here Are Five<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">1) <strong>Show &#8217;em.\u00a0<\/strong>Your board rarely gets to see you in action as a public figure, impressing the hell out of external constituents. \u00a0For the most part, they are in a board meeting with you and the most exciting thing you talk about is the completion of performance reviews. \u00a0Do you have any video? \u00a0Is there someone you can invite in to validate your fabulousness?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2) <strong>The inside scoop.\u00a0<\/strong>Board members want to feel like they are part of a special club \u2014 that they know the &#8220;inside scoop&#8221; of your &#8220;industry.&#8221; \u00a0That&#8217;s a big perk. How about a guest speaker? \u00a0Bring in a big funder \u2014 maybe a key person from a foundation that already funds you. \u00a0Or an expert in your sector? \u00a0An academic? \u00a0Have that person talk not about your organization but about the larger issues in your sector. \u00a0Let them ask questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3) <strong>Goosebumps.\u00a0<\/strong>Bring in folks who are touched by your work. \u00a0If you are a lobbying organization, bring in an elected official &#8220;rock star&#8221; they can brag about. \u00a0If you are a direct service organization, how about some of the folks who benefit from the work you do. \u00a0Have your lead program person or the CEO moderate. \u00a0This can be goosebump material. \u00a0 Goosebumps are the breakfast of champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4) <strong>Coffee Talk.<\/strong> \u00a0Often as a board member, I felt like I didn&#8217;t get enough of the insights our CEO had about the work. \u00a0In our case the CEO had been in his job for a number of years and had history and insight that I didn&#8217;t feel like I got enough of. 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