Assess Your Board Culture

Identify areas of strength and growth

Who This Is For

Board chairs, committee chairs, governance committee, executive committees, and CEOs

The Aim

To provide boards with a means to assess their practices, norms and behaviors against strategies that have been shown to be effective in leveraging a range of expertise and perspectives.

Take Action

Take the overall assessment
Call attention to and strengthen good practices
Utilize the subsequent assessments and tips sheets to identify practices, norms and behaviors that can help improve board culture

Benefits

Assessments enable boards to identify areas of strength and specific practices that can improve the board's effectiveness.

Why it matters

Unexamined practices can result in undesired outcomes like groupthink and overlooking expertise.