Don’t let habit & convention derail your board meeting
Too often the status quo dictates the board agenda. And to make matters worse, the growing burden of compliance and regulation leaves even less time for strategy and broader stakeholder conversations.
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We would use our time better if we abandoned the ‘high church’ rituals. Wasting the first half an hour reviewing minutes and matters arising does little to set the scene for a rich debate.”
Sir Kenneth Olisa, Chair
Focus your agendas on what matters most
Our Agenda Planner tool takes the complexity out of setting your forward agendas. From one “at a glance” view you can plan your annual calendar, manage last-minute changes, weigh where your board spends its time, and proactively course-correct so that it’s your board’s priorities, not convention, that drive your organisation forward.
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Translating our priorities to agendas gives the board and me confidence we’ll use our time well.”
John Pettigrew, CEO, National Grid
Effortlessly master multiple agendas
With the ease of the drag-and-drop feature, you can move your agenda items seamlessly between meetings and the timings will automatically update across your agenda. So when those inevitable last-minute changes crop up you’ll be at a loose end rather than your wit’s end.
Secure the board’s time on each of your stakeholders
Boards, rightly, want to balance their time across a wide range of stakeholders, from the shareholder, to employees, the environment and increasingly society at large. Easily tag and monitor your agenda items by stakeholder groups to ensure your board maintains the right balance of focus in its discussion and, for UK companies, fulfil its Section 172 obligations.
Ensure alignment across your meeting forums
Agenda items rarely come to the board in isolation — they’ll often have been tabled at a management meeting or committee forum first. Link your agenda items, so that postponing an item in one forum highlights the impact on another, making the web of dependencies easy to manage.
Analyse and report on where your board spends its time
Understand whether your board has spent its most precious resource — time — in the right way. Meeting analytics let you see at a glance where your board might be spending too much or too little time.