Who’s Running This Meeting Anyway?
This document helps participants prepare, sets expectations, and structures discussion.
What is a Board agenda?
These two tools track where work is and how work is going.
What are check-ins and indicators of progress (metrics)?
This role requires thinking beyond immediate tasks to long-term organizational health.
What is stewardship?
This body—not CoCo—holds formal decision-making authority.
What is the Board of Directors?
This legal status prohibits profit distribution to members.
What is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit?
One key function of CoCo is creating this recurring meeting structure.
What is the Board meeting agenda?
These four questions guide effective check-ins (name 2).
What are “What’s going well?”, “What’s not going well?”, “What are the goals?”, and “What support is needed?”
This perspective requires “zooming out” to consider long-term impact.
What is the managerial (or stewardship) perspective?
Name the kind of authority CoCo does not have.
What is formal or direct authority?
This IRS code defines the ICC’s nonprofit status.
What is Section 501(c)(3)?
CoCo must ensure proposals are appropriate, properly formatted, and this.
What is complete?
These are planned pauses in a project to assess progress.
What are check-ins (checkpoints)?
This involves identifying and preparing future leaders over time.
What is leadership development?
This relationship holds formal authority over staff.
What is the General Manager (via the Board)?
This clause forbids political campaign participation.
What is the prohibition on political campaign activity?
Agendas should assign this for each item to guide discussion.
What is a facilitator?
These are signs that show whether work is progressing as intended.
What are indicators of progress (metrics)? (also accepted: KPIs)
This process creates direction across leadership transitions.
What is strategic planning?
Fun fact: This CoCo will kick off the next 5-year plan!
CoCo may act in place of (or in lieu of) the Board only under these conditions.
What are emergencies when the Board is not in session (Emergency Powers)?
These assets must go to University of Michigan if federally funded housing is involved.
What are land or buildings funded by the federal government?
CoCo must balance guiding the Board while avoiding this perception.
What is being coercive or pushing an agenda excessively?
CoCo’s visibility comes from this—not superior knowledge.
What is information flow through CoCo?
This mindset requires holding multiple perspectives simultaneously.
What is a managerial perspective (holding multiple perspectives)?
This percentage of all members in good standing, voting in person, is required to shut down the ICC.
What is three-fourths (3/4)?
An exception still allows payment for this despite nonprofit rules.
What is reasonable compensation for services rendered?