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How to make the best decisions for your board
Every board meeting requires the board to make decisions. Making good decisions is tough. Most boards of directors are Many non-profit boards create committees to share the workload of the board. Larger condos and homeowner associations sometimes create committees...
How to be the Best Homeowner Association Property Manager
Are you a SMART Property Manager? What are the characteristics of highly effective property managers? Being a property manager of a community association, condominium, or homeowners association is a tough job. It takes very special people to be successful in these...
SMART meetings: get the most out of your board meetings
Does your board have great meetings? No, not likely. Too many meetings are poorly attended, take far too long, are unproductive, and without purpose or outcomes. Having great meetings is not mandatory, but holding meetings that people want to attend is a smart...
The Director’s Life Cycle: Onboarding, Orientation, and Offboarding
Nonprofit organizations need to onboard new directors every year. In this article we’ll focus on ways to make sure new volunteers are onboarded quickly, allowing them to get up to speed and ready to serve. The transferring of information and processes can require a...
A Series about Minutes, Meetings, Property Managers & Directors
A 4-part series about board management; minutes, meetings, and property managers. Part 1: How to make Minutes SMART: Five Key Things Minutes have an image problem, and we need to fix it. No one loves their minutes; no one even likes them. No one likes taking minutes....
How to take better minutes: 5 SMART Tips
Minutes have an image problem, and we need to fix it. No one loves their minutes; no one even likes them. No one likes taking minutes. The hardest position to fill on any volunteer boards is the secretary. No one ever does anything with their minutes anyway. An easy...
Trouble finding board directors? How to get more
What is the issue with recruitment? In this blog post, Pat and Bonnie address the issue of recruitment. This is the second in a three-part series titled From Meet n Greet to Board Seat; here we’ll focus on ways to get owners to take a central role in condo affairs,...
Keeping your board interested: Top 4 ways to increase engagement
In this blog post, Pat and Bonnie address the issue of engagement. This is the first in a three-part series; here we’ll focus on the top four ways to get owners engaged with condo affairs, and on the not-for-profit side, how to get supporters engaged with the...
Making board’s better: Best practices for new directors
With Pat Crosscombe & Bonnie Oakes Charron Join us for this 3-part series about engagement, recruitment, onboarding and orientation of new directors. Part 1: Keeping your board interested: Top 4 ways to increase engagement In this blog post, Pat and Bonnie...
Shake boredom from the boardroom – 5 wellness principles to energize meetings
Does your regular meeting format include heavy meals, hours of meeting time with little exercise, or a lengthy checklist of approvals and reports with minimal participation or debate? Make wellness one of your first ‘board resolutions’ in the new year. Boards...