Board Self-Evaluation Archives - The Governance Coach

Does Your Board Know How Well (or Not) It is Performing?

Posted by Paul Zilz
On September 25, 2019
Board Self-Evaluation

In the process of governing, boards should invest time in properly setting, evaluating, and ensuring achievement of the strategic, future-focused benefits the organization is supposed to produce for targeted recipients at a specified worth (Ends, for shorthand). Instead, boards are often distracted by operational incidental information This distraction not only hinders the organization from achieving […]

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE BOARD WALL – ARE WE THE MOST EFFECTIVE BOARD OF ALL?

Posted by Rose Mercier
On January 15, 2019
Board Self-Evaluation

A new year. Time for resolutions. Energy for self-improvement. What better time for your board to ask itself – are we governing as effectively as we could? Why is self-evaluation important? As a board, you are entrusted with the stewardship of resources on behalf of someone else – the legal and moral owners of the […]

Can We Be Candid?

Posted by Joseph Inskeep
On September 19, 2017
Board Self-Evaluation, Human Resources, Monitoring

The topic of candor got a boost this year from the popular book Radical Candor by Kim Scott (1), a retired Google/Apple veteran and management coach who believes the right kind of candor is a critical factor in personal and organizational success. Kim has YouTubed about the subject as well, and both her book and […]

Evidently this is Not Evidence!

Posted by Richard Stringham
On October 4, 2016
Board Development, Board Self-Evaluation

Earlier on in my consulting career, it was common to come across boards in which directors thought that the Board Chair should be the CEO’s boss. However, when a board uses Policy Governance®, board members should operate in a manner that recognizes the board as a whole is the CEO’s boss and the Chair is […]