Bob Harris and Dana L. Saal

Bob Harris, CAE, provides free governance tools and templates at The NonProfit Center. He is on the faculty for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has worked in Amman, Jordan, Tokyo, Japan, Kiev, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus to help organizations. Bob received “Association Partner of the Year” award from Association Trends Magazine in 2012, and he has authored books on association management. To improve management he created the Association Self-Auditing Process, used by more than 20,000 organizations. He believes that nonprofit organizations should be as efficient as any commercial business.

Dana L. Saal, CMP, CAE, has worked with associations since 1986 as a staffer, director, volunteer, coach, and consultant. She is adept at identifying challenges and discerning solutions, a skill she uses to guide associations through the steps to identify their value propositions and move them forward. Learn more at www.saalmeetings.com.

Articles by Bob Harris and Dana L. Saal

• Taming committee reports at board meetings

  Tuesday, January 08, 2019

  Committee reports can use up valuable time at board meetings. Directors sit through a litany of reports and updates; the average is 15 to 17 per meeting. Too often they start with, "Our committee didn’t really meet but I can give you an update on how we’re doing…" (There goes another 15 minutes!) Listening to or reading reports is not good governance. Below we have described three ways to tame committee reports at board meetings.