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Planning your Hybrid AGM: Key governance clauses to look out for in your articles
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Key governance clauses to look out for in your articles Background Your articles form part of your organisation’s governance documents. They detail the processes for running the general meeting and the rules they are covered by. It is...
Planning your Hybrid AGM: How to allow remote attendees to be seen and heard
Planning your Hybrid AGM: How to allow remote attendees to be seen and heard Background For a hybrid AGM it is important for all members joining remotely to have the option, if they so choose, to be seen and heard as if they were at the AGM in person. This means...
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Proxy voting processes
Background Proxy voting is the process of giving the ability to those that cannot make the AGM meeting (in person or virtually) to provide voting instructions to another person (the proxy) who can attend on their behalf. For a hybrid AGM any voting instructions...
Trade Union Assurers
Background The legislation for Trade Unions requires an ‘Assurer’ to provide a signed membership audit certificate (MAC) of the membership for each reporting period (typically each year), if the union has over 10,000 members. Appointment or discontinuance of an...
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Increasing Engagement
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Increasing engagement Background If you are considering running a digital or hybrid AGM process for the first time, then you are likely thinking about increasing engagement options to members for attending the AGM meeting. However, there are...
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Zoom vs Teams
Teams vs Zoom for an online Annual General Meeting (AGM) Background Zoom and Microsoft Teams are the 2 main systems that come to mind if you are planning either a hybrid AGM or virtual AGM. Many organisations already use MS Teams internally, but is it more appropriate...
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Practical Considerations
Planning your Hybrid AGM: Practical Considerations Background Setting up the processes for a Hybrid AGM and other general meetings will include catering for those attending in person as well as those attending online. Organisations looking to implement a hybrid...
Planning your Hybrid AGM: The importance of hybrid AGM registration
The importance of hybrid AGM registration. Background As Covid-19 lockdown measures ease, it is likely there will be a preference for companies to run general meetings as hybrid meetings, which are meetings that are part in person and part remote. From a...