Leading Boards Facilitate Effective Meetings 

Make room for dissent and input from all

Who This Is For

Board chairs, committee chairs, secretaries, and CEOs

The Aim 

Update and expand your facilitation practices to engage every member and the management team, and capture valuable expertise and perspectives to address critical board issues. 

Take Action

• Set the tone and lay a solid foundation for how the board is to engage
• Facilitate so that everyone joins in
• Encourage different perspectives
• Engage between meetings to build confidence and listen for unique contributions

User Tip: Encourage more viewpoints by acknowledging the value of ideas that are different or unique.

Benefits

Intentional meeting practices will allow you to capture the value of different ideas and perspectives especially in times of board turnover, welcoming first-time board members, and increasing diversity. 

Why It Matters

Strong facilitation can overcome unintentional, yet limiting, meeting dynamics and reinforce good board norms* and habits.

_{^{*Norms: The practices and behaviors of a group - formal and informal, spoken and unspoken - that guide how the group works together and how individuals can participate. Learn more about norms in the glossary.}}