Power of emotion – Part 2: The Chair’s role in managing unconscious bias

By Alison Gill | 13/04/2021 in Blog posts

Understanding the connection between emotion, feeling, thought and action is vital to an effective Board because it directly impacts how Board’s make decisions. In our blog series ‘the Power of Emotion’ we seek to explore the link to effective decision making. In this blog we look at how a Chair can manage bias and ensure the board remains both diverse in thinking and highly effective.

Tags: Bias, BiasBoardroom, Effective Boards

Digital transformation – the challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for boards

By Peter Snowdon | 08/04/2021 in Blog posts

Overseeing a company’s digital strategy is set to become increasingly challenging as artificial intelligence explodes on to the corporate scene. Ethical and moral issues, coupled with legal and regulatory complexity, mean boards will have their work cut out to navigate the AI minefield.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Boards, Digital Strategy, Regulation

Power of Emotion – Part 1: Harnessing anxiety to make better boardroom decisions

By Alison Gill | 15/03/2021 in Blog posts

Welcome to the first in a series of 4 blogs that seek to we seek to explore the link understanding the value of emotion and the link to effective decision making.

Tags: boardroom, decision making, empowerment, governance

Note on collective and individual accountability

By Peter Snowdon | 05/02/2021 in Blog posts

Peter Snowdon explores matters of individual and collective accountability in the boardroom, by way of a look at the PRA’s December 2020 Evaluation Report of the Senior Manager & Certification Regime (SM&CR).

Key Study for PhD Research in Corporate Governance

By Jenny Simnett | 05/02/2021 in Blog posts

Jenny Simnett (non executive director and researcher at Henley Business School), is leading some important research on the effectiveness and role of Board Nomination Committees. Jenny is seeking Chairs and Non-Executive Directors willing to participate.

Why more HR directors should be on boards

By Alison Gill | 14/12/2020 in Blog posts

Boards are having to consider people agendas as never before, from safeguarding the health of employees to transforming how people work, creating many reasons to allow HRDs to play a more active role on the board.

The CEO and the board

By Alison Gill | 27/11/2020 in Press articles

Find out what Bvalco had to say about how the pandemic is changing the relationship between the CEO and the board, in the latest Governance webcast.

Why the cabinet isn’t practising good governance

By Alison Gill | 02/11/2020 in Blog posts

As we enter a second lockdown, the cabinet’s handling of the crisis wouldn’t be allowed in a boardroom. So we carried out a ‘cabinet evaluation’ to produce these recommendations.