Evaluate and enhance your Board’s performance

At Governance by Design, we believe any form of assessment must be carried out with a view to identifying areas for improvement so that Boards can move to action recommendations and enhance effectiveness.

Even the best performance-focused Boards can improve.

Board evaluations may be carried out in many forms, including internal, external and online assessments. At Governance by Design, board evaluations are developed in context for each board.

Leading from the boardroom, Boards must ensure their performance adds value to an enterprise’s purpose through effective decision-making processes. Our board evaluation process results in Boards having a clearer understanding of the following:

• Performance focus: we consider whether the Board understands its role in setting the tone from the top.
• Leadership relationships: we review the effectiveness of the relationship between the Board and management, including whether the board has sufficient oversight of financial and non-financial risks
• Boardroom culture: we investigate Board dynamics and boardroom culture to identify any influences (positive or negative) impacting on decision-making.
• Enterprise governance architecture: we identify if the measures adopted add value to the Board’s role and demonstrate accountability to the organisation and it’s stakeholders.

Added Board culture review option – how are you setting the tone from the top?

In keeping with contemporary issues facing Boards, Governance by Design offers the opportunity as part of the Board review process, to include Emotional Intelligence as an element evaluation your Board culture.

Through the use of Emotional Intelligence surveys and interviews with directors and/or management, this element of a Board evaluation gives directors an insight into individual and group communication, decision-making and leadership styles and how that affects the culture.

These evaluations give invaluable insight into the individual behaviours as well as group dynamics, and can include individual and/or group debriefs.

A leadership evaluation of this kind for directors can provide a competitive edge for future-focused Boards who want to enhance their decision-making capabilities and set the ‘tone from the top’.