Resource Highlight: MCAA’s Corporate Structure: Using Outside Advisors/Directors

September 2, 2022

Outside advisors can help a company gauge management performance, answer operations questions, assist with planning for the future, arbitrate internal differences, and keep management alert to relevant changes in the external world. MCAA’s Corporate Structure: Using Outside Advisors/Directors offers tips for finding and involving these outside advisors. It’s just one of MCAA’s educational resources that are free to MCAA members as a benefit of membership.

The bulletin covers:

  • What to look for in an outside advisor
  • The pros and cons of involving them as members of the board of directors or members of an advisory committee
  • Compensation
  • Where to find people who will serve
  • Meeting mechanics
  • Clarifying your objectives

For a full list of available Management Methods Bulletins, visit the Management Methods Bulletins page.

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