Chairing the Board Effectively
A Web seminar for board chairs and executives.

Board chairs need a good orientation to the job. This seminar gets right to the point of defining the board chair's job description and offers lots of tips about how to do the job effectively. Board chairs will learn:
--how to run board meetings
--what you need to know about basic parliamentary procedure
--how to work with the executive director
--how to manage board problems
--how to manage committees
--how to represent the organization to the public
--when and how to discipline the board
--understand the dynamics of how a board works

$98 per computer connection

Meetings that Work Join Dan Cain for a real-time, one-hour web seminar designed especially for board members and executives of a nonprofit organization--or anyone who wants to learn how to hold good, productive meetings.

You'll learn how to:
--prepare for meetings
--keep good meeting minutes
--increase meeting attendance
--deal with visitors to the meeting
--stick to the agenda
--hold meetings under 90 minutes
--build a quality agenda
--arrange the meeting room
--control conflict
--include technology for better meetings
--use basic parliamentary procedure
--utilize committee reports

$98 per computer connection

Management or Governance--Who Does What?

Inability to clearly define the difference between management and governance is the greatest conflict that board members and management face. This one-hour real-time web seminar will help board members and executives understand how they can define who does what through job descriptions, policies, planning, good business principles and just plain good discussion among team members. We'll demonstrate that each part of the team has a distinct role to play in accomplishing the mission and how destructive it can be to the organization if they fail to play their proper role.

$98 per computer connection

Building a Knockout Long-Range Plan
For executives, planning committee chairpersons, and all board members.

Planning is the board's number one job, but they don't do enough of it and typically don't do it well. Join Dan Cain for this real-time, one-hour seminar on long-range planning. You'll learn the details of holding an exciting planning retreat for your board--when, where, who, how long, agenda, facilitators etc. then you'll learn how to produce an action-oriented long-range plan--vision, mission statement, organizational scan, actions goals, strategies. Finally, you'll learn how to put the plan to work, how to keep it alive and working, and how to keep your board focused on the plan. Dan brings his experience as a facilitator of dozens of successful planning retreats for boards and management nationwide.

$98 per computer connection

Surviving and Thriving with the Board
Dan Cain has twenty years of experience working with boards and solving board and management problems. He'll share that experience with executives in this one-hour web seminar. "Surviving and Thriving with the Board " is designed to give executives insights they need to build a good working relationship with their boards. Hear what board members expect of the executive and what the executive can expect from the board members. Learn how to:

--keep the board out of management and into governance
--teach board members their job
--build the board into a team
--communicate effectively with board members
--promote the recruiting of quality board members
--guide the board to more productive meetings
--cope with board members who are not team players
--get the board involved in ongoing board development

$98 per computer connection