By Brittanie Davis Morge, CMCA, AMS, PCAM Brittanie Davis Morge is the proud community manager of River Creek Owners Association located in Leesburg, VA. She has been in the industry for 15 years achieving the highest level of certification, her PCAM.
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our board meetings are one of the most important ways to communicate with your membership. They are the trifecta of all the vital players: your membership, board members and most likely management. With all these individuals in one place, it is surprising that the major-
ity of board meetings have low attendance and owners frequently leave feeling put off. Unfortunately, board meetings can often be a place of bickering, complaining and discontentment. Coincidently, there are even websites dedicated to Board Meetings gone wrong.
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But fortunately, there are some things that can help to leave your membership feeling better about their Association’s business. Here are a few tips that I have learned over the last decade and a half that can help to change the tone of your meeting.
The key to any good meeting is having an agenda in advance that the Board is familiar with and has agreed upon. This helps direct the meeting in a synchronized manner, allows the membership to follow along and proves that there is a reason to conduct business. And most importantly it sets a tone of professionalism.
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It’s been said time after time, tone is everything. A board meeting is the perfect place to be present of the tone and show the true meaning of the professionalism, but how can that be achieved when meetings have such a bad rap?
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Setting Expectations Your board President should recognize immediately whether or not there are new faces in the assembly. If this is the case, it
