Looking Forward in 2011
Happy New Year everyone! The new year is a good time to bring up the Look-Forward Agenda. One of the challenges the recording secretary will have is to make sure they don't miss items that need to be dealt with at each meeting. The Look-Forward Agenda is very helpful for this. It is basically a list of items that are regularly dealt with throughout the year and provides a timetable of when these items need to be added to the agenda. For example, our senior leadership team review financial statements each month at the first meeting after the 10th business day, and each year they need to set the annual budget in February to bring to our Board of Directors. As well as business items, I put things such as the All-Staff Appreciation Breakfast and the Christmas Party. These items are put on the agenda to make the decision on what date we will have it and who will arrange it. Small i...