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DO’S: WHAT Is An Advisory Board GOOD For Anyway!?
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Well, the name itself explains it, isn’t it!? It is a board with people WHO were chosen to give advice and THEIR experience, their professional knowledge to persons which degrees and diplomas might even be higher, BUT WHO don’t have these competencies as the members of the Advisory Board have! THE Advisory Board might ALSO have higher degrees, competencies and diplomas as from those where they are in (Government, schools, EDUcation…).
Those chosen people in the Advisory board give advice for a BETTER way as it is actually, otherwise they wouldn’t have any existence right, isn’t it!? 😉
Learn more:
- http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/the-role-and-value-of-an-effective-advisory-board/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_board
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THE most IMPORTANT is that the Director Board CAN LISTEN to the members of the Advisory Board and NOT take constructive criticism personal by straight answering on an opponent view, NOR to see these persons as enemies!
An Advisory Board is an enrichment for any organization as collective intelligence is getting used to GO for BETTER!
Learn more:
- Tolerance
- The Power of listening
- Constructive criticism
- Feedback
- Leadership in the 21st Century
- Collective intelligence
- Holism (holistic view)
- Character
- Empathy
- Learning about conflicts and how to avoid them <===> Conflict Management
- Hierarchy was yesterday
- All you ever learned about meetings is wrong
- My curation about meetings
- My curation about success
- How to Make Change a Desirable Thing
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The above mentioned is ALSO valuable for any sort of meetings.
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There are commercial programs existing to organize meetings, check a non exhaustive list below, please:
And WHAT about Online Video Conferencing programs?
Pixar’s success isn’t an accident. They’re successful because they’ve mastered meetings. Learn what makes them so effective.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Growth+Mindset
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Meetings
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DON’TS In An Advisory Board!
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SO… as mentioned above these people are respected people for THEIR competencies, experience, innovative minds and valuable insights! WHEN those people are getting treated as 12 years old persons, thus meaning: by Pedagogy based meetings instead of Andragogy based meetings they will feel offended!
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Learn more:
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AND when YOU make reports where invited members from the “Advisory Board” (adults and seniors) get marked (like in school) as “Not Excused“, “Excused“, “Present” in the reports, OH MY GOD!!!
Here below such a (fictive) report WHO shows the “presences“, names and companies are hidden, ONLY marked by color (organizer, members…).
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In the above fictive example the following colors mean:
- RED is regular members of the Advisory Board
- Orange-Brown are members of the Organization
- Green are PRESENT members of the Advisory Board
When YOU have a look on the above fictive sheet you will remark that ONLY 6 members from the Advisory Board from a total of 32 members were present and 4 members of the Directory Board. This means a presence of ONLY 12.5%! In such a case as demonstrated above with the fictive presences sheet, the responsible people of the Directory Board should ask themselves WHAT is the reason of such a minor presences!?
The Board Directory members should be OPEN to these advice and NOT take it personal, nor being stubborn by NOT <===> listening and understanding them. <===> They should be OPEN for questioning the WHY these advice to engage discussions and let people express it also…
DON’T make an enemy attitude AGAINST persons which gave the organization constructive criticism, NOR let them show YOUR enemy attitude when YOU meet them outside in private life! DON’T consider THEM as YOUR employees which YOU want to control and dominate, they are FREE and OUT of YOUR control anyway!
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Click the above image, please, to access the article.
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Recommendations
The above mentioned is resulting as my experience in 40 years in the workforce/labor and also in managing positions where I was present in more than 100 meetings , without counting the meetings and congresses which I was leading in my sports career as president of a sports federation and president of a club. I followed special courses about:- Conflict Management
- Sales Management
- How to lead a team
- In German: Kommunikation, Sich selbst und Andere führen, Konfliktbewältigung (Firma Klaer-Werk in Trier [DE]) von DIPL. PSYCH. Alex HENNING und DIPL. PSYCH. Stefan LEHNHOFF (2001)
- Communication
- Listening to others
- Empathy
- Not creating underdogs
- Win-Win situation
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The author Gust MEES is ICT Course Instructor, ”Member of the Advisory Board” from “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), BEESECURE, Official Partner (Consultant) from the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg, project “MySecureIT“, Official Partner from the Ministry of Commerce in Luxembourg, project “CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure). |
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Stay tuned for next blog post(s) 😉
Keywords necessary for me to create this blog post (preparation / brain storming): Respect, NO UNDERDOGS, win-win situation, NO HIERARCHY, NO MIDDLE AGES THINKING, OPEN MINDED, OPEN for CHANGE, OPEN for ADAPTING to 21st Century, eSkills, eLeadership, CyberSecurity Awareness, Digital Citizen, NEW ways of communication, THE letter “C” in ICT,
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EDU: Digital CitiZENship, CyberSecurity, eSkills, Modern EDU by Gust MEES 
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