The 360-Degree Board Evaluation
Your annual evaluation confirms the board is functioning well and changes nothing: run one that surfaces what goes unsaid and ends in commitments.
Scope. 6-page facilitation guide and six questionnaires (98 rated items), including a CEO instrument and a full Chair evaluation. Governance toolkit: practitioner-designed, for use in your context.
The board has run its evaluation for years. The Chair calls it going through the motions. The questionnaires come back, the report confirms that the board is functioning well, and nothing changes. The concern one director has carried for six months never reaches the page.
An evaluation that produces change
A practitioner-designed toolkit for directors and company secretaries who want a board evaluation that produces change. It evaluates the four dimensions of board performance — process and discipline, quality of challenge and decision-making, strategic contribution and foresight, and board culture and dynamics — and adds the two views most processes leave out: the CEO's view of the board's strategic contribution, and a full evaluation of the Chair, led by the Senior Independent Director.
Most boards that evaluate at all cover only the first dimension. The greatest governance value lies in the other three.
Use it by running the full set of questionnaires once or, if time is short, starting with the challenge and culture instruments, where most evaluation processes never look.
Four dimensions, six instruments
- The four dimensions of board performance, with guidance on how to assess each
- The Chair evaluation protocol: five steps, led by the Senior Independent Director
- Scripts for introducing evaluation to a reluctant board, for each source of resistance
- An approach to individual director evaluation, combining self-assessment and peer observation
- A worked case study of a board that redesigned its evaluation
- A questionnaire set of six ready-to-use instruments, including a CEO instrument and a full Chair evaluation, with the culture instrument anonymous by design
When the evaluation has become a ritual
Built for the people who lead the evaluation
Written for the Chair or Senior Independent Director who leads the evaluation. It also serves the company secretary who runs the process, nominations and governance committee chairs, and any director who wants the evaluation to produce change.
Findings that become commitments
You'll evaluate all four dimensions of board performance, including the two most processes skip, and run a Chair evaluation that ends in specific, public commitments. Findings become written, tabled commitments that the board revisits the following year.
A practitioner-designed toolkit to be applied in your own context.
The 360-Degree Board Evaluation
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