Board Fundamentals: Effective Board Meeting Facilitation (online) - February 2024

Workshop Description

Love them or hate them, meetings happen at any organization. In this workshop, you will learn practical tools and techniques for setting agendas, fostering participation, building consensus and keeping your meetings on track.​

Suggested Participants:

All non-profit leaders who are looking to improve their facilitation skills for board meetings​

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Adopt specific meeting facilitation tools to engage all participants in contributing to meeting outcomes.​
• Describe strategies to lead groups through challenging meeting conversations.​
• Identify the steps to build consensus in challenging meeting conversations.
• Apply tools such as board calendars, annotated agendas and consent agendas to make time for important discussions.​

Workshop Benefits:

• Clarity around how facilitation contributes to inclusion and participation​.
• An introduction to consensus-building as a decision-making tool​.
• Ideas to try out at your own meetings​.

Participants will be sent a link to access the workshop online. If you are unable to access workshop online, but would like to participate, please contact nicole@westcoastnest.org

Health and Safety Policy:

West Coast NEST is committed to hosting a safe, equitable and inclusive event. Discriminatory behaviours will not be tolerated and anyone displaying such behaviour will be asked to leave the event. No refunds will be issued if a participant is asked to leave.

Refund Policy:

Refunds will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. There will be no refunds within 1 day of the date of the event. When issued, refunds will be for the ticket cost, less the Eventbrite fees determined by Eventbrite, and a 10% administration fee.