Looking at Advisory Boards


by Dontrell Lyons - Date: 2008-09-04 - Word Count: 450 Share This!

Looking at Advisory Boards

When launching or maintaining a small business there are a number of goals that a business can seek to facilitate.

The most common are maintain profits while minimizing losses and growing when possible.

Of course, in order to be successful with either of these goals it becomes necessary to make the right decisions that will take a business in the proper direction.

Of course, it is not always easy to make the right decisions and rather than make a wrong or uneducated decision it may be best to seek the help of an advisory board.

For those not familiar with what an advisory board, it is generally a collection of less than a half dozen individuals who provide advice and guidance to the owners/managers of a business.

An advisory board is not materially involved in a business and has no decision making powers and share no liability in the business. The role of an advisory board is often in the form of counseling with the purpose of aiding a business in achieving its desired goals. Usually an advisory board is made up of those who have significant experience in the field and experience is probably the most valuable asset that can be acquired. After all, with experience there come sound business decisions that can aid a company in perpetually growing.

Clearly, that would be something that is desirable!

Of course, that brings about the question as to how one finds an advisory board. One such way would be to seek a business management firm that can provide a team of advisory experts.

Yes, of course, there will be a fee for such services but keep in mind...you are receiving the services of professionals who will have the potential to greatly help your business. Another way to form an advisory board would be to hire your own advisory board on your own from you local community without the help of a professional firm.

Regardless of the manner in which you hire an advisory board the ultimate goal is to hire a board that will help you achieve results.

But, it is critical to never lose site of the fact that advisory boards are not there to have managerial responsibility pawned off on them. The role of an advisory board is support and advice and should remain as such.

In a way, an advisory board is an investment that seeks to aid in your business making increased profits or decreases losses.

In other words, an advisory board is designed to aid in promoting the successful management of a business and if you have the right people on your advisory board then this goal may very well be easily attained.


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