Board Effectiveness Survey and consulting
With the increasing call for improved corporate governance and board accountability, now is an important time to carry out a comprehensive board survey to enhance your effectiveness.
Boards can enhance their leadership and their commitment to good corporate governance and accountability to stakeholders by conducting an independent review of their effectiveness.
It is important, however, that a review of a board's effectiveness isn't seen purely as a compliance or box ticking exercise, but rather one that can contribute to improving board performance.
Board Effectiveness Survey
The Board Effectiveness Survey has been designed to review the effectiveness of the board as a whole and not as a review of individual directors.
It's a comprehensive survey that benchmarks the effectiveness of boards against comparable organisations whether they are public, private, government or not-for-profit organisations.
Many boards that conduct surveys use their own internal self administered surveys to assess their effectiveness.
Some limitations of this approach include:
- They are rarely comprehensive in the issues they address
- The survey items are often untested and inappropriately worded
- Survey process can be prone bias and often lacks statistical rigour
- They do not encourage candour as respondent anonymity isn't protected
- Without benchmarking or appropriate gap analysis, the results are often incorrectly interpreted
Consulting
Our Board Effectiveness Survey can be completed separately or in conjunction with a process that includes interviews with directors and management, reviews of charters, agendas, board or committee papers, minutes and the like. We have highly experienced board and research specialists that are involved in this important process.
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