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Why meetings are not productive
Board Best Practices

Why are meetings unproductive and how can you revive them?

If you’ve ever felt like you’re wasting time in your board meetings, you’re not alone. According to a study by the Harvard Business Review, 71% of respondents felt their meetings are unproductive and inefficient, while 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking. To answer the question of why meetings are not productive, and to help you improve your meeting effectiveness, here are 6 tips you can apply to both
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Dee Sicklesteel
White Paper: Getting to the right conversation, for the right decisions
Board Best Practices

White paper: Helping credit union boards make the right decisions

As credit unions strive to best support their members during COVID-19, board members are facing tough decisions that have them performing a balancing act between credit union fiduciary accountability and the needs of members. Whether credit unions are wrestling with choices to waive service fees or offer skip-a-payment mortgage options, there’s a lot to consider for credit union boards right now. To help guide and support board members, we offer this white
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Ian Warner
Modern board governance
Board Best Practices

Remote leadership: 6 considerations for boards during the COVID-19 crisis

Providing leadership during a crisis should be a key consideration for every board, as directors are responsible for safeguarding the governance and viability of an organization.  However, finding the right balance between action and oversight is critical. The board should play a supportive, internal, and independent role while also ensuring that the organization is acting in the best interest of its stakeholders. In addition, boards are expected to act quickly when problems
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Dee Sicklesteel
How to run a virtual AGM
Board Best Practices

Virtual annual shareholder meetings: checklist for boards

We’re all adapting to a world that requires social distancing, remote work, and business conducted by video conference or phone – a shift that’s brought a steep learning curve with it for many.  As work from home requirements extend from weeks to months, many organizations and their boards are realizing they’ll need to run one of their largest and important events of the year – their AGM – virtually. With the right
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Karen Peacey
Good Governance for All Award 2020
Company News

Nominations open for Aprio’s 5th Annual Good Governance Award 

Today, for the fifth consecutive year, we are thrilled to launch our 2020 Good Governance for All Awards. The award recognizes an admired not-for-profit by providing them with free Aprio board portal software for three years.  Anyone who’s worked at a not-for-profit, or served on a charity’s board, has witnessed that organizations with the highest aims for impact often face the biggest hurdles with board engagement, as well as the most limited budgets
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Ian Warner
Aprio press release
Company News

Strong boards needed ahead – Aprio CEO letter & special offer

To all board members out there, Who knew when we joined the boards we are on today, that we would be helping the organizations to navigate a pandemic? The board’s role for any organization is to provide sober second thought and calm oversight and to see the long-term opportunities through the near term challenges. This coronavirus is certainly testing the leadership on many boards. I lead the Aprio board portal technology team
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Ian Warner
How to take minutes at a board meeting & security
Security

Board portal security checklist

Board information security has become a top board governance priority as cybersecurity risk grows. With the recent COVID-19 outbreak, boards are now looking for solutions that will allow them to share and collaborate on board materials, all from one secure and centralized location. Many boards use board portal software to protect their information from cyberattacks and provide tools for board directors to have discussions and participate in in-person and virtual board meetings.
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Dee Sicklesteel
Aprio customer webinars 2020
Company News

Save the dates for our upcoming customer webinars for board admins & directors

Hello Aprio users!  We value every one of you, and that’s why we offer unlimited, free, and personalized training for all our board administrators and directors customers. In addition, we also offer regular customer webinars to help your board run with the utmost efficiency.   Aprio hears everyday that our board portal is intuitive and easy-to-use – and we’re thrilled! As we continue to enhance our software, we also encourage our users to
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Karen Peacey

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