Meetings, Minutes and More...

Join Sylvia Groves, author of AAA+ Minutes, in this fast-paced, interactive course that focuses on the notice, planning and conduct of meetings. The session that addresses current good governance standards, legal requirements for meetings and minutes and practical issues that impact meeting and board effectiveness.

 

We’ll explore regulations, leading-edge best practices and Fiercely Practical Governance processes that:

  1. Ensure meetings are properly called and are validly held
  2. Create meeting formats and processes to help directors fulfill their duties
  3. Empower the Board to effectively address critical strategic and risk issues
  4. Enable directors to operate at a strategic level and stay out of the weeds
  5. And, of course, we will address the issue of AI in the room!
 
As a minute writer, reviewer or reader, you will walk away with a deep understanding of:

 

  1. The fundamentals  and purpose of board minutes
  2. How to apply plain language principles to minute writing
  3. What to include and exclude
  4. How to get the right level of detail
  5. Balancing due diligence and regulatory oversight with protection in litigation 
  6. Managing in camera meetings
  7. When and how to use a consent agenda
  8. Best practices for minutes approval processes
  9. Proper records retention and controlling access to minutes
  10. Fiercely Practical Governance tips that will save your time and your sanity!

"Meetings, Minutes and More" is part of the Governance Knowledge Bucket. This program is suitable for all levels of governance professionals, but we recommend levels 1 and 2. Want to learn more about your governance level and the GPC Knowledge Buckets? Take our GP Career Advancement and Benchmarking Tool exclusive to GPC!

4 GECs are available for this course. 

Speaker:

 

Sylvia Groves President, Governance Studio 
Sylvia is the author of the highly acclaimed book: AAA+ Minutes™ – The Three Must-Do Fundamentals And 100s Of Practice Tips For Writing Minutes That Protect Your Organization And Its Directors and the companion publication 10 Secrets Directors Must Know About Minutes.

Registration Fee

  • GPC Members:  399.00 + HST
  • Non-Members:  499.00 + HST
  • Event + Annual Membership: 799.00 + HST
When
11/3/2026 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time
Where
Online CANADA
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