9 Mistakes Companies Make With Their Board Materials

Why do directors receive information – known as “board materials” – before each board meeting?

First, there’s the legal reason. It helps to provide a record of informed decision-making. Second, you’re looking to provide information in advance so that the time that the board spends together with management can be focused, analyzing, discussing & deciding. Not just watching presentations.

The biggest problems of the past, way too few – or too many – board materials, last-minute delivery of materials, are just that for the most part. Vestiges of the past.

Here are the 9 biggest mistakes that some companies still make:

• Not having a consistent look & feel
• Not using an organizational matrix
• Dumping in more because that’s easy
• Holding up delivery until all materials are in
• Summaries that don’t properly explain
• Not including a CEO/board chair cover letter
• Uninviting formatting
• Jargon in materials
• Leaving your crown jewels in the cloud

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