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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.