How Board Self-Evaluation Enhances Performance

(40 pages) Introspection or self- evaluation by your board directors, an in-depth governance diagnostic exercise, can help deliver game changing dividends.

Through self-evaluation boards better sense the extent to which their fellow appointed/ elected directors understand and embrace their organization’s consensus governance culture. Such information often illuminates issues which should be addressed.

Featured are 300+ suggested, declaratory model statements regarding performance, planning, controls, etc. You and your organization leaders can extract and/or modify these suggested texts to construct your own instrument.

In the format suggested, the respondent (director) has five response options – from “(1) agree to a high degree” to “(5) disagree to a high degree.” The sample statements are focused: on the board itself (150 statements), the chief elected (50 statements), the chief staff executive (40 statements), the responding director himself/herself (70 statements), the directors’ board peers (19 statements), and committees (13 statements). Collating the responses can be straightforward.