This webinar is for anyone involved in the commissioning of a board evaluation project – Chairs, Senior Independent Directors, Board Secretaries and other interested parties.

At the webinar you will hear from a range of experienced board evaluation practitioners and founder members of the Board Effectiveness Guild – and have a chance to ask them questions about how to get the most value from a board evaluation in an organisation like yours.

The webinar will be in four sections covering:

• Getting the planning and scope right – how to ensure that you set clear objectives and specify the scope of the work at the contracting stage to get most added value from an evaluation (beyond a simple check of Code compliance) and what are the pitfalls to avoid
• Choosing the best approach for your situation – considering the pros and cons of questionnaires, interviews, direct observations, and balancing quantitative and qualitative methods
• Asking the right questions in the right way – opening up conversation with board members to generate the most useful new insights into how to improve the efficiency of the machinery that supports your board, and the effectiveness of board interactions and decision making.
• Developing a good action plan – how to best engage a board in a discussion of the recommendations from an evaluation and so take ownership of an action plan which facilitates the necessary change. And how to follow-up and external evaluation with internal monitoring of developments.
  

The presenters will draw on anonymised examples and good practice from boards of PLCs, public sector organisations, privately held companies and charities and you will have a chance to raise particular questions relating to your own experience in the panel sessions of the webinar.