Parliamentary Procedure Survival Skills

Thursday, August 17, 2006

by Jim Slaughter, JD, CPP-T, PRP

"After sitting on nonprofit boards and serving as legal counsel to nonprofit organizations for more than two decades, I have come to loathe Robert's Rules of Order." These sentiments from a book review by Stephen C. Nill -- Founder and CEO of CharityChannel.com -- are not that surprising. After all, doesn't parliamentary procedure hinder, rather than facilitate, business? Wouldn't boards function better if we disregarded such procedures altogether? Although tempting at times, parliamentary procedure cannot be completely ignored....