Agenda Items for Your Board this Summer
Specific agenda items for congregational boards to address during the quieter summer months — governance reflection and long-range planning.
Resource Chapter: Ch. 7: Better Board Meetings
Meeting and Voting Online
Governance questions raised by online board meetings and electronic voting: legal considerations, best practices, and how to maintain meaningful participation.
Two Ways to Vote
Explores majority voting vs. consensus-based decision-making — when each is appropriate and how each affects community cohesion after the decision.
Great Committees
What separates committees that actually accomplish things from those that merely meet. Clear purpose, right authority, and goal-focused reporting.
How to Spend Your Board’s Time
Most boards spend too much time on reports and not enough on strategic leadership. A guide to allocating meeting time across governance, discernment, and accountability.
3 Ways to Make Board Meetings Less Excruciating
Three concrete changes boards can make to improve meeting culture and effectiveness: agenda design, facilitation, and getting the board’s proper role right.
Four Questions to Ask before Every Meeting
Diagnostic questions that meeting leaders should ask before any board or committee meeting — consistently applied, they dramatically improve focus and effectiveness.