Articles on Governance and Leadership in Purpose Driven Organisations.
Governance
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.
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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.
Technology
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.
Meetings
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?
Case Study: The Association Specialists
Find out how The Association Specialists got a 2X productivity boost for meeting preparation with Our Cat Herder.
What is a board portal? [Video]
Watch this short video to find out more about board portals and the benefits to your board.