Featuring Eli Mina, a well respected Board Effectiveness Consultant and Registered Parliamentarian, this half day webinar (1-4 pm Pacific) will assist your Board and Management in conducting productive meetings, using rules of order sensibly and intelligently, and achieving excellence in decision-making.

You will identify helpful habits that should be embraced and potentially damaging habits that should be abandoned.

This webinar builds, in part, on Eli Mina’s book “101 Boardroom Problems and How to Solve Them". Attendees will receive a PDF version of the book after the webinar. In addition, attendees will receive a pdf handout package in advance of the session.

This session will include time for attendees to ask questions about meeting issues and challenges.

Participants are encouraged to start the learning process before the webinar by reviewing Eli Mina’s articles at www.elimina.com/insights

Note: The price is per attendee and is inclusive of tax where applicable and converts to approximately $199USD for US customers on checkout.

If you cannot attend live, you will have access to the recording for 30 days to view. If you would like to pay for a group/multiple registrants or if you need to change the attendee please contact us at webinars@civicexcellence.com.
  • Key principles and rules for meetings, including virtual meetings
  • Roles of the Chair and meeting participants in ensuring effectiveness
  • Quorum and voting issues, processing motions and amendments
  • Chairing Contentious Meetings
  • Knowledge-based decision-making: Goals, Principles and Challenges
  • Balancing organizational vs constituency interests (“two-hat” dilemma)
  • Interactions between Elected Members, Staff and the Community
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    Eli Mina, M.Sc., P.R.P
    Board Effectiveness Consultant and Registered Parliamentarian
    Since 1984, Eli has advised his clients on chairing contentious meetings, demystifying the rules of order, preventing and dealing with disputes and boardroom problems, achieving informed decisions, and minute taking standards.

    Eli’s clients come from local government, school boards, aboriginal organizations, credit unions, regulatory bodies, and the non-profit sector. Eli is the author of five books, including “101 Boardroom Problems & How to Solve Them” and “Mina’s Guide to Minute Taking.”

    His website has over 120 articles at www.elimina.com/insights .