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Board meeting management covers the entire process prior to, during and following a board of directors’ meeting. This includes notes, risks, decisions, voting and agenda items for meetings. By implementing the right strategies you can ensure that your board meetings are successful the intended results: setting up strategies for the company and defining the way teams work towards those strategies.
Keep to your schedule, and reduce the time spent on reports. Limiting the number of executive presentations by restricting senior executives to a couple of agenda points allows for a more detailed discussions on the most important strategic issues. It also gives the executives the chance to give their feedback directly to the board.
If a topic that is new is brought up during the meeting, it is suggested to encourage board members to discuss it between sessions or outside of the boardroom. This will free up time during the meeting and let everyone focus on the issues in the present. The distraction of random discussions topics can quickly take up the entire meeting particularly when it happens in the middle of an agenda item. To prevent this from happening, ask attendees for topics that don’t relate to the current discussion to be pushed into a “parking area.” Once the meeting has ended you should review the parking space and decide what topics should be added to the following agenda or delegated.
Use software that is specifically designed to generate results to record and store information about the meeting. Choose a simple user interface and seamless integrations to make it easy for your attendees to participate in the meeting and remain focused.