Transparency and Your Group's Goals

Open up your management meetings to your constituency Board meetings are meant to take care of the business of running an organization. Even an organization that opens up its management meetings to its members will probably need to hold private closed-door directors meetings. At an open meeting, your board can establish immediate goals, discuss plans for upcoming events, look to volunteers to step-up with new ideas.  The long-range mission of an organization, plans for succession, review of by-laws, budgeting for the future, still need to discussed by your elected group of directors. Open meetings should have a short, fixed agenda. They can offer your members and volunteers information about the organization while eliciting from them ideas about how to make the organization better or keep the association relevant.  You are offering your members an opportunity to be heard. This will probably make them feel engaged and this is the  kind of organization to which people want to belong.

Open meetings provide transparency and honor your members and volunteers.