2.  Use advisors and committees effectively  Maintain good board-manager relations  Conduct businesslike meetings  Follow sound business practices  Forge links with other cooperatives and cooperative associations

3.  Effective advisors and committees  Come prepared to meetings  Have an agenda  Meet outside regular business meetings  Understand management  Active in cooperative

4.  Communicate with board  Maintain manager/board/employee/member transparency  Networking  Availability

5.  Agenda  Roberts Rules of Order  Maintaining interest  Maintaining civility  Constitutionality

6.  Honesty  Profitability  Dependability  Bylaws  REPUTATION!

7.  Between other cooperatives  With firms and agencies  Amongst customers/members  With non-members