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Company Secretary Playbook: Which Executives should attend Board Meetings?

Explore best practices on structuring board meetings and executive staff presence to balance transparency and oversight. From limiting attendees to sequencing agenda strategically and setting participation norms to optimise information flow while preserving board independence.

Company Secretary Playbook: How to Reduce the Size of Board Packs

Learn how to cut down large, bloated board packs to create focused, strategic materials that actually inform directors. Expert tips on getting board buy-in, conducting a content audit, setting a page limit, leveraging a board portal, removing granular details, distributing updates between meetings, adopting templates, spreading out recurring items, holding pre-meetings, limiting distribution, and continuously refining. Create concise board packs that enable excellent governance through engaged directors making data-driven decisions.

Three Essentials of Successful Meetings

Discover why successful meetings require three key elements - a clear agenda, detailed minutes, and assigned action items. Learn how these components work together to provide structure, documentation, and accountability. Find out why meetings drift without agendas to set goals, minutes to capture discussions, and concrete next steps to drive progress between sessions. Read how technology can help optimise workflows around agendas, collaborative minutes, and robust action item tracking.

Company Secretary Playbook: Effective Board Meetings

A detailed guide for company secretaries on how to effectively plan and execute board meetings. This guide emphasises the importance of strategic governance, robust board papers, action item tracking, and timely minute documentation. It also highlights the role of the company secretary in facilitating focused discussions, ensuring smooth logistics, preparing presenters, and driving continuous improvement.

7 Tips for Improving Your Golf Club's Governance

Discover 7 key strategies to enhance your golf club’s governance. From defining roles and responsibilities, fostering strong communication, regular training, using a board portal, updating policies, member engagement, to emphasising accountability. Make your golf club more efficient, transparent and effective.

Can I Use SharePoint as a Board Portal?

Explore the pros and cons of using SharePoint as a board portal and understand why a dedicated board portal like Our Cat Herder could be a better choice.

Run a Board Meeting that's Effective and Productive

Effective board meetings are crucial to the effectiveness of the board of directors

11 Strategies to Enhance Your Arts Organisation's Governance

Governance improvements to help your Arts Organisation flourish

10 Tips for Improving Your Board Meetings in 2023

Tips to help you improve your Board Meetings and make them effective.

What are the elements of a good board meeting?

Do you know what the elements of a good board meeting are?