Follow up Worksheet

Action Items and Follow Up from the High Impact Board Presentation

High Impact Board Tip #1

Define the Purpose of your Board and Each Board Meeting

Key Questions to Answer

1. What are the expectations of how your board can help your organization?
2. How can the board be a “strategic accelerator” to your organization?
3. What is the main strategic purpose of your next board meeting?

By what date would you like to have these questions answered? (helpful hint: #3 is the easiest. If you want to incorporate this prior to your next meeting, you should have this answered 5 weeks prior to your next meeting).

High Impact Board Tip #2

Build your Board and Board Meeting to Achieve a Specific Objective

Key Questions to Answer

1. What board skills or experiences will best help our organization (i.e. marketing, pr, crisis communications, technology, governance, etc) to achieve our future goals?
2. How can the board members be better integrated to understand the needs of the industry and your organization?
3. What is the objective (i.e. plan, introductions, clarity, etc) that the board members can help us achieve that will match the strategic purpose of our next meeting?

By what date would you like to have these questions answered? (helpful hint: #3 is the easiest. If you want to incorporate this prior to your next meeting, you should have this answered 4.5 weeks prior to your next meeting).

High Impact Board Tip #3

Facilitate Your Board Meeting to Achieve The Objective

Key Questions to Answer

1. How can we engage our board members more in the meeting so they can be more proactive in helping us?
2. Are we asking the board members the best questions?
3. What information can we put in the board to eliminate “educating” the board members during the meeting?

By what date would you like to have these questions answered? (helpful hint: #3 is the easiest. If you want to incorporate this prior to your next meeting, you should have this answered 3.5 weeks prior to your next meeting).

High Impact Board Tip #4

Evaluating our Board to Increase Impact

Key Questions to Answer

1. How can we best evaluate if our board helped us achieve our objective?
2. How can we share the information from the evaluations with the board members to increase engagement and impact?
3. What are the key questions we can ask the board members and our team after our next meeting to increase impact for the next meeting?

By what date would you like to have these questions answered? (helpful hint: #3 is the easiest. If you want to incorporate this prior to your next meeting, you should have this answered 2 weeks prior to your next meeting).

If you or your team has further questions on how best to implement some of these ideas please reach out to Bob Arciniaga via email with any questions.

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