{"id":584318,"date":"2016-05-25T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/?p=584318"},"modified":"2022-07-04T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T00:08:53","slug":"board-meeting-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/board-meeting-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Planning Guide for Board Meeting Agendas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWhen is your next board meeting<\/em>,\u201d I asked one of my Executive Director clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had been discussing her relationship with her board and had just started to develop a plan for how she could collaborate with her board chair to design a great board meeting. Right up until my question, she was a bundle of enthusiasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ME: \u201cWhen is your next board meeting?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HER: \u201c<\/em><\/strong>Um, great question\u2026 one second. Let me see\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She looked at her calendar and raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HER: \u201cOops, it\u2019s on Thursday!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ME: “Thursday? Really? Today is Monday. You mean in three days<\/strong>!?!?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HER: \u201cYeah but it\u2019s ok. It just kinda snuck up on me. Not a big problem\u2026 I\u2019ll just pull up our last board meeting agenda and work from that. That\u2019s what I usually do. Can you help me tweak it a bit?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board meeting snuck up on you?????<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board meetings should not sneak up on anyone. They sure don\u2019t sneak up on another one of my coaching clients. (Note: If you want to learn more about my coaching services, <\/em>click here<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our last session this client was of substantive value to me \u2013 <\/em><\/strong>illustrating to me yet again that I get as much as I give in the work that I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He showed me the approach he uses to plan out the board meeting agenda for the entire year, well in advance. His process is enormously useful and he has generously agreed to let me share it with you today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

WHY SET THE BOARD MEETING AGENDA SO FAR AHEAD?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I was the Executive Director of GLAAD, I always tried to think a few board meetings ahead. It was one of my five-star board chairs<\/a> that prodded me to develop the habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest reason? I wanted to be sure that I used board members\u2019 time well. It didn\u2019t matter if I thought they were rock stars or if I wished they\u2019d consider joining a different board. They were all volunteers and I had an obligation to respect their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the fact is, board meetings are worth every minute you spend planning for them.<\/strong> I took this very seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some nonprofits meet monthly, some every other month, and some once a quarter. At GLAAD it was quarterly. I tried to think about all four board meetings in the aggregate and tied milestone dates to the annual goals we had as an organization. We would build work plans around those dates so we could get the board everything it needed to make key decisions for those particular dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to keep things organized, all presentations were due early the week of the board meeting and on the Friday of a board meeting weekend, we would spend 2 \u00bd hours in a \u201cdress rehearsal.\u201d Yes, we took board meetings very seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the rehearsal, a senior staffer would give a presentation and the rest of us would play the role of different board members \u2013 especially the board members who asked the toughest questions and the ones you could count on to ask a question where the only possible response was, \u201chuh?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjustments were made accordingly and we were all ready to go. The big benefit for me as the leader was that I saw the presentations together and was able to then craft my comments to help create a real overall narrative for the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Super helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THERE\u2019S AN ANNUAL CYCLE TO THE ACTIVITIES OF YOUR ORGANIZATION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at your calendar. You\u2019ll probably find it fairly predictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with finances. You have a fiscal year and you need budget approval far enough in advance of the start of the year to give the staff run room to plan for revenue increases, staff increases (hopefully), new initiatives, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is your audit. You want to have that complete with a reasonable timeframe after the close of the fiscal year. And of course you want quarterly or mid-year budget vs. actual reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you need some kind of kick off to the year to level the playing field \u2013 what are your goals for the year, how do you plan to get there, and what are your respective (board and staff) road maps for success?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What else? You want to build in some kind of professional development opportunity each year \u2013 I\u2019m thinking a fundraising training, a messaging training \u2013 something that helps them become more effective in their roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet you might have some big annual event that you need to plan for that demands all hands on deck. Gotta build that in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That seems like plenty to remind you that there aren\u2019t too many surprises in the annual trajectory of a nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now my client’s approach to help you plan\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANNUAL BOARD MEETING AGENDA PLANNING GUIDE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the concept. If you agree with the premise that there is a cyclical nature to the board meeting topics each year, then what you need is a visual that gives leaders of the organization a sense of where each board meeting fits into the larger context of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what if you reviewed that planning document each December? You could actually anticipate topics and give folks a fair amount of heads up if they were presenting! You could actually invite an outside speaker that would enrich or inspire the board if you knew that was coming down the pike at the board meeting after next. You could even give folks a reasonable amount of time to write a board report and (gasp!) get it to the board so they could actually have sufficient time to read it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have tweaked my client’s planning document and created two of them for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My client has meetings every month (and he and I are working on how to persuade the board that\u2019s too frequent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I feel so strongly that monthly board meetings are (a) a huge time bandit for staff (b) provide too much opportunity for the board to get into the weeds and (c) are typically too short to accomplish everything a board needs to accomplish, I am not including a guide for that meeting frequency (ooh, I feel another blog post coming on!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is my hope that these will be helpful to you in getting out in front of board meetings and to make the very best use of the time your board members donate to be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this, after all, is a key to building an effective board. You can bring on the best board members in the world but if you don\u2019t engage them, enrich them, inspire them before you call them to action\u2026 well\u2026 when you call, no one will be home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, a planning guide for those who have board meetings bi-monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And next, the planning guide for those who have quarterly board meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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–> Download Here: Planning Guide for Board Meeting Agendas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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