Board Meeting Doesn't Have To Be Bored Meeting.

It may seem strange. It may seem incongruent. Yet the most important hour of a credit union's life, the time that means the most for its future success, is the ubiquitous, often treated as insignificant, sometimes hard to schedule, and sometimes hard to handle-board meeting.

People love to hate meetings. Meetings have earned a bad rep. Since corporate life requires a board meeting, it makes good sense to make the most of it. Make your meeting productive, enjoyable, and short enough.

Productivity improvements center on two areas: discussions and decisions. Boards and executives can make many routine decisions without a discussion. Routine decisions that the board can delegate may still require board confirmation xamples include rate changes and chargeoffs. The tool for quickly dispensing with these matters is a consent agenda.

A face-to-face meeting provides all the elements of good …