by Pat Crosscombe, Founder & CEO, BoardSpace | Governance, Minutes, Non-Profit Focused
Make finding documents easy: Best Tips Getting organized and keeping track of your documents is easy if you have a system and ALWAYS follow it. This system consists of two parts: Document Naming Guide and Tag Library. The document naming guide and Tag Library work...
by Pat Crosscombe, Founder & CEO, BoardSpace | Condo & HOA Focused, Minutes, Non-Profit Focused
How to take better minutes: 5 Tips Minutes have an image problem, and we need to fix it. No one loves their minutes; no one even likes them. Directors need to know how to take better minutes. The hardest position to fill on any volunteer board is the secretary, and...
by Pat Crosscombe, Founder & CEO, BoardSpace | Governance, Minutes, Non-Profit Focused
How to make board meetings fun again Are your meetings not fun because the meeting minutes are never ready before the next meeting? Directors attend a lot of meetings, usually one meeting every month. Admins and condo or HOA managers attend many more than that. Read...
by Pat Crosscombe, Founder & CEO, BoardSpace | Condo & HOA Focused, Director, Governance, Minutes, Non-Profit Focused
End Minute Madness: Love your Meetings When I joined my condo board, I absolutely refused to be the secretary because I knew taking the minutes would be a pain. I became the president instead. During my term of office, we had recording secretaries of variable quality...