Don’t let the status quo hold your board back
Too often the board agenda is dictated by habit and convention. What’s more, the growing responsibility of compliance and regulation leaves even less time for strategic topics 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 the most important matters
Our Agenda Planner tool simplifies the process of setting your forward agendas. From one “at a glance” view, you can plan your annual calendar, manage last-minute changes, measure how your board spends its time, and proactively course-correct so that your organization is driven forward by your board’s priorities, rather than by convention.
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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 manage multiple agendas
The drag-and-drop feature is easy to use. It allows you to move your agenda items seamlessly between meetings and automatically updates the timings across your agenda. So when those inevitable last-minute changes happen, you’ll be able to manage them quickly and efficiently.
Balance your board’s stakeholder focus
Boards want to balance their time across a wide range of stakeholders, such as employees, customers, the environment, and society at large. With Agenda Planner, you can easily tag and monitor your agenda items by stakeholder group to ensure your board keeps the right balance of focus in its discussions.
Establish alignment across multiple meeting forums
Agenda items rarely come to the board in isolation. Instead, they will 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 it easy to manage the web of dependencies.
Analyze and report on your board's use of time
Meeting analytics help you to see whether your board has spent its most valuable resource — time — in the best way. With these analytics, you can see at a glance where your board might be allocating too much or too little time, and make adjustments accordingly.