Healthy Board Meetings: Motions and Voting

Welcome to the “Motions and Voting” lesson, the fourth of eight in the “Expert Insights: Healthy Board Meetings with Susan Leahy” course, which offers board members the means to run fair, productive meetings using the fundamentals of parliamentary procedure. This lesson breaks down how a motion is just a question, and the debate and voting procedures surrounding business items. After viewing, learners will be familiar with the types of main motions, subsidiary motions, and incidental motions and their roles in the meeting environment.