How to Organize a Board of Directors Meeting with Kerika’s Board Pack Template

Kerika Board Pack Template screenshot showing a Kanban board workflow for organizing a board of directors meeting, including preparation, review, and distribution tasks.

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Organizing a board meeting can feel like a massive logistical hurdle, especially when you’re dealing with the administrative overhead of governance. For leaders in both commercial and nonprofit organizations, the real friction usually lies in the “board pack.” 

It’s a complex assembly of reports, agendas, and financial statements that you need to distribute and update in real-time. But don’t worry, this guide is here to help! If you’re wondering how to get your board pack together quickly and easily, this template is exactly what you need. We designed this template to simplify the complex process of board prep. It provides a visual, structured workspace for your entire team, whether they are across the hall or across the globe.

Ready to reclaim your time and productivity? Let’s get started!

1. Who Can Use This

This template is built to support the diverse group of professionals responsible for high-level governance:

  • Corporate Secretaries and Administrative Professionals: Those who manage the logistics and final assembly of board materials.
  • Executive Leadership Teams (CEOs and CFOs): Leaders who must provide high-level strategic and financial updates.
  • Committee Chairs: Specifically those leading Audit, Risk, Governance, or Remuneration committees who must submit specialized reports.
  • Distributed Teams: Professionals working across different time zones who need a “single source of truth” to collaborate without losing track of document versions.

2. What it includes

The Board Pack template provides a comprehensive starting point with a pre-configured, visual layout:

  • A Four-Column Workflow: Your progress is tracked through the Preparation, Review & Approval, Final Distribution, and Completed columns.
  • Standard Board Documents: Pre-configured cards include the Meeting Agenda and Schedule, CEO Report and Strategic Updates, and Financial Reports and Analysis.
  • Committee Reports: Dedicated cards are ready for the Audit Committee Report, Risk and Compliance Committee Report, Governance and Nominations Committee Report, and Remuneration Committee Report.
  • Quality Control Cards: To ensure accuracy, the template includes cards for Board Pack Quality Review and Fact-Checking and Chair and Committee Chair Review.

3. When You Should Use This

This workspace provides the most value in high-stakes environments where organization and security are critical:

  • Quarterly Board Meetings: Use this template when you need a repeatable, reliable process every three months to keep your board cycles consistent.
  • Remote Board Coordination: This is the perfect solution when your directors and staff are spread across different locations. Kerika handles time zone adjustments automatically so everyone stays in sync.
  • High-Stakes Document Security: Use this when your IT department requires strict access control. Kerika is the only task management tool that leaves file ownership entirely with you by storing documents in your own Google Drive, OneDrive, or Box account.

4. How To Use It

Managing your board prep is straightforward with these steps:

  1. The READ ME Card: You will find a “READ ME” card at the top of every column. Always check these first. They contain specific rules on the criteria that must be met before adding or moving tasks to the next stage.
  2. Advancing the Workflow: Only move task cards from Preparation to Review & Approval once the initial content is fully drafted. This ensures the review team only sees “ready” materials.
  3. The CHECKLIST Tab: Open every card and navigate to the CHECKLIST tab to manage sub-tasks. Check these off one-by-one to ensure no detail, like a specific figure or date, is ever missed.
  4. The ATTACHMENTS Tab: Use the ATTACHMENTS tab to upload reports or spreadsheets directly to the relevant card. These files stay in your secure cloud storage, and Kerika ensures they are shared automatically with the right people.

Conclusion

Using the Kerika Board Pack Template ensures your board meetings are supported by professional, organized preparation. Because Kerika integrates seamlessly with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, access rights are managed for you. When you change a user’s role in Kerika, their file access in your cloud storage is updated instantly.

Team members get the read+write access they need to build the pack, while board directors are added as Visitors with read-only access. By moving to a visual board, you can eliminate messy email chains and ensure your organization maintains the highest professional standards.

Need Something Different?

If this template isn’t exactly what you need, let us know at support@kerika.com and we will create a custom version for you, free!

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You can now import your Board

Kerika’s AI Helper just got better: you can now import a variety of files that contain the tasks you want to include in building a new Task Board.

Image shows a screenshot of Kerika's Start New Board dialog, with an arrow pointing to the IMPORT MY DATA button.

What had previously been an IMPORT FROM TRELLO button is now a more general IMPORT MY DATA. Clicking on it brings up your import options: from Trello, as before, and now also by uploading a file:

Image shows a screenshot of a Kerika dialog box containing options for importing data from Trello or by uploading a file.

For refugees from Trello, the CONNECT TO TRELLO option is the best way to bring all, or just some, of your Trello boards into Kerika. Pressing this button results in Trello asking if it is OK for Kerika to have access to your Trello account for an hour. (Actually, we just need a few minutes, but Trello’s minimum access is 1 hour.)

If you have tasks in a Microsoft Word or Excel document, the UPLOAD A FILE option is best for you: pick a file and Kerika’s AI Helper will read it and figure out how to make a board with its contents.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Our AI Helper just got better

Our AI Helper just got better at creating new boards and templates: although it looks the same as before, behind the scenes it now can do Web searches to find relevant material to use for building what you need.

This means that you can now make more general requests to the AI Helper, like “make a board for me to learn about AI agents”. To build this board, the AI Helper will automatically do a Web search to find the best articles out there that cover AI agents, and then build a learning board for you.

New AI Helper for starting Boards and making Templates

We have made substantial improvements to the previously released AI Helper to make it more useful for anyone who wants to start a new Task Board or Template.

Creating New Boards

The AI Helper is always available when you want to start a new Task Board:

Screenshot showing the Start New Board dialog, which contains the new CREATE WITH AI button

What’s different now is that clicking on the CREATE WITH AI button will open a new AI Helper pane on the right side of the window:

Screenshot showing a Kerika Home page with the AI Helper dialog open in a separate pane on the right edge of the screen.

The AI Helper has asked the user which of several accounts to which he has access he wants to create the new board.

If you have access to multiple accounts — for example, if you are working with different organizations or companies that all have their own Kerika accounts — the AI Helper will first ask you which account you want to create the new board in.

(If you are working in a single account, which is true for the vast majority of Kerika users, the AI Helper skips this step.)

Screenshot showing the AI Helper pane asking what type of board the user wishes to create.

The AI Helper offers some suggested areas, as shown above. You can choose one, or simply provide more specifics about the kind of board you want to create.

In the example below the user selects the first suggested category: project management and task tracking:

Screenshot shows the AI Helper offering suggestions to help the user clarify what his new board should focus on.

Unlike our first (experimental) version of an AI Helper, the new version is much more interactive: it provides suggestions and prompts to help the user think about what the new board should do, and, in particular, what kinds of management and collaboration problems they are currently facing.

If you have something very specific in mind, you can skip the back-and-forth with the AI Helper and provide a specific request, like this example for a board that contains all the steps necessary to start a new business in Washington State:

Screenshot shows an example of a user request that is very specific.

Given a specific enough request, the AI Helper can quickly suggest a board that will meet the user’s needs:

AI Helper offers a preview of a proposed new board.

The AI Helper doesn’t immediately create a new board; instead, if first offers a preview so the user can confirm the new board will meet their needs.

If the preview looks good, the user can ask the AI Helper to make the new board (this step can take a little time):

Once the new board is created, the AI Helper give a quick link to it:

Screenshot showing that the AI Helper has created a new board

Here’s the new board created by the AI Helper: as you can see, the AI has also created appropriate and helpful tags, assigned the work to the user (since the user hadn’t said anything in their request about working with a team), and even estimated how long each task might take and assigned due dates accordingly.

Screenshot showing the new board created by the AI Helper
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Creating Templates

Creating templates works in the exact same way: for example, the user could have asked for a template to be created using the same reference source (Washington State’s Department of Revenue Guide for Starting Businesses).

This is what the output looks like:

Screenshot showing a template created by the AI Helper
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Mobile & Tablet

The AI Helper is available on phones and tablet as well; the user interface is, naturally, a little different to accommodate the more limited screenshot

Please give this a try and let us know what you think!

An easier way to deal with a large number of boards

As folks use Kerika over a long time, and for a variety of purposes, they may end up with dozens or more Task Boards and Whiteboards in their account.

One easy way to keep your focus on the most important boards is to use the Favorites feature: the Home screen has separate tabs for Favorites and All Others:

We have made it even easier with two new filters:

  1. Show only Active Boards: this means that only boards that are not in the Archive or have been deleted will be shown.|
  2. Show all types of Boards: you can choose to see only Task Boards, only Whiteboards, or both.

Enjoy.