Capabilities
Board of Directors and Leadership Assessments and Workshops
Boards representing all types of organizations, public & private (and increasingly non-profits) are under pressure to deliver effective oversight.
In today’s environment, best practice Boards embrace two distinct roles in providing oversight, namely rebuilding trust in the face of major corporate failures in oversight while contributing to the performance of the organization.
All Boards should assess their process and performance, and many do. However, these assessments often don’t go to the heart of evaluating the Board’s effectiveness in providing strategic guidance and counsel to management. This effectiveness depends on the personal orientations of Board members and the ability of the Board to work together productively.
Consequently, it is valuable for the Board to go beyond current best practices of evaluating issues such as member independence, committee structure and individual activity. In order to determine how well the Board is able to provide strategic oversight, it is also necessary to assess the prevailing biases and viewpoints of the individual members, as well as the implications of these combined perspectives on the functioning of the Board as a group.
Skout’s assessment tools provide insights into how the unique viewpoints of individuals and of the group impact the Board’s ability to deliberate and make decisions. These tools help illuminate how the Board works with management to understand the big issues and their implications and options, and then to take appropriate action. Skout’s assessment tools portray the decision-making tendencies of individuals and the Board in its entirety. These portrayals provide a fact-based and non-threatening foundation for productive analysis, dialogue and progress.
