As Board President or Chair of the Committee on Trustees (COT), you work to refine your Board’s structure and function. Consider the advantages of a summer retreat that combines your new-Trustee orientation with development of the coming year’s work plan. Holding your orientation session on a Friday evening allows your new Trustees to hit the ground running on Saturday morning—when your full Board reviews and finalizes its annual Board agenda, its Board meeting calendar, its committee structure, and its committee charges. This can become the centerpiece of your Board’s organizational cycle—an exciting, time-and-energy-efficient culmination of one year’s work and launch of the next.