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Board Meetings
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Monthly
Board meetings are either three or four hours long (depending on the type
of membership). They are held either at member’s location on a
rotating basis, or at a place provided by TAB. We schedule the meetings on
the same day each month; i.e., second Tuesday, fourth Thursday, and
several months in advance to ensure availability of all members
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All TAB Board meetings are led by a Certified TAB
Facilitator trained to maximize meeting effectiveness. He or she guides the
group discussions without dominating the meetings and encourages all
members to express their views while keeping the discussions on track.
Once a
month you can escape the isolation of being the top person at your company
and share your issues with people who can really understand. At TAB Board
meetings, members discuss their opportunities and problems in a relaxed,
confidential atmosphere.
Members,
together with the Facilitator, focus on real world solutions – not
theory. They give practical advice based on their collective experience,
which in a typical TAB Board is between 200 and 300 man-years of management
and business experience.
The Facilitator
makes sure that all members participate in the discussions and that each
member has an opportunity to bring up the issues of his/her concern.
Approximately equal time is given to each member at each meeting, unless by
general agreement extra time is given to a member who may have an urgent or
“special” problem or opportunity.
Prior to
the first Board meeting, every member signs a confidentiality agreement.
This confidentiality is fully respected and all members are reminder of it
at every meeting. We are proud to say that in all the years since TAB’s beginnings, we have not had one single
issue of broken confidentiality and … we don’t expect to have
any in the future.
Seventy
five to eighty percent of problems discussed at TAB Board meetings involve
topics that all privately owned businesses have in common. Some of the most
creative suggestions and solutions for real-life business problems come
from members in different industries that the member with the issue.
Because they don’t work in your industry, TAB members are not
locked-in your industry’s way of thinking; … they can help you
to think outside the box.
At TAB
meetings you’ll get the help you need to redefine your role in your
company and develop your vision. Your fellow TAB members and your Facilitator
will open your eyes to new alternatives and opportunities.
Confidential,
frank discussions at TAB meetings with people who have nothing personally
to gain by telling you what they think – and no reason to hold back
from being honest – will help you determine what you need to change
in your managerial and organizational approaches.
As you
learn about the challenges of fellow members’ businesses,
you’ll view things from a broader perspective and you’ll avoid
mistakes by learning how they faced and solved the same problem.
You’ll
benefit from the advice of people who understand your situation …
because they’ve been there.
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