Board Effectiveness
Board Effectiveness
Board strategic fit, development and succession
Company boards are facing increasing pressure, challenge, and scrutiny. The need for effective and sustainable governance has never been more important. So what can boards do to help ensure long-term and successful governance?
We have partnered with Board and leadership recruitment specialists Norman Broadbent to explore the key areas boards need to think about when planning for the future. This includes skills development, succession and strategic fit.
Developing the right board skills and experience in times of uncertainty
In an era of significant uncertainty, transformation and stakeholder scrutiny and a shift towards the need for more specialist input to the board, BDO and Norman Broadbent explore board composition and how boards can align appointments to their needs and strategic objectives.
For more information, you can download our Board Effectiveness Review brochure.
Read the "Future-proofing the Board" article
How we can help
An effective board is key factor in the ongoing success of an organisation. Improving the performance and dynamics of your Board in order to deliver clear strategic leadership and constructive challenge will make your organisation more effective and more successful.
Our Board Effectiveness Questionnaire and Tool will help your organisation regularly evaluate its overall effectiveness. It allows the Board to conduct a self-assessment and provides an opportunity to reflect with external partners on relative strengths and areas for improvement. This can help both individual directors and the Board collectively enhance their skills and their performance.
Board Effectiveness Questionnaire and Tool will:
- help the Board be clear on purpose
identify technical and softer skills gaps evaluate Board diversity evaluate the appropriateness of current issues, challenge and discussion at Board level evaluate board independence help prepare effective succession planning arrangements identify board training and development needs evaluate governance and processes improve effectiveness by optimising board management information, minute and processes
Please email Jennifer Cafferky if you would like to use the Questionnaire to improve your board
You can also find out more about our Board Effectiveness Reviews team and how their work could benefit your organisation.
Join BDO’s Company Secretariat Community
Our exclusive Company Secretariat (CoSec) Community has been designed in recognition of the challenging, multifaceted, and critical role that CoSecs play in championing effective governance. Bringing CoSecs, and aspiring CoSecs, together to connect, learn, and exchange insights and good practices.