As a Board Member or Chair are you are seeing any of following:
- Ineffective conversations with your Board colleagues concerning critical ideas, issues or challenges to the organization’s Success; or
- Discussion points taking longer than expected to reach a decision or resolution; or
- Not completing the Board meeting on time; or
- New Board members who have the right experience and skills but are having a negative impact of the current Board’s Dynamics; or
- Board and CEO are having a difficult time interact with each other during critical or difficult conversations?
If you are seeing or experiencing anyone of the above point, then you should talk to Boardroom Metrics. Through a conversation with one of experts, you will learn how we use an objective analytical approach to get behind the interaction dynamics that are creating the challenges for the Board.
A Board’s impact and success in achieving outstanding governance, guidance and oversight is the richness of their participative conversation and contributions by each member. However, interpersonal interactions, characteristics, and behavioural style can significantly impact the Board’s effectiveness. Boardroom Metrics works with Boards to bring a crystal clear view of the impact of member’s cognitive and behaviour traits and style are having on the team’s mandate and success.
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How do we do it?
Boardroom Metrics’ approach addresses the point Ram Charam raised in his book “Owning UP: the 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask”. In particular, Ram Charam says “When you have eight to twelve people around the table, group dynamics and chemistry are fundamental”.
The Process:
The initial step is to work with the board chair to discuss the Board issues and challenges and the engagement scope, agreed upon timeframe, etc. Once the Board has engagement Boardroom Metrics, a Board DNA specialist will have a conversation with the Board Chair to establish the date and review what will be communicate with the Board as a whole. This introduction conversation with the whole Board will explain the process and answer questions, and generally last about 30 minutes.
The next step is for every Board member to complete two online assessments which do not have to be completed in one sitting. A member can start and stop their input until they completed their input. Once their input is complete, they will receive an individual report based upon their input.
When every Board member has completed their input, our consultant will conduct the analysis and facilitate a Board session. During this meeting, the team’s results will be presented and the facilitator will lead the group in developing a playbook to increase the group’s effectiveness and use the unique characteristics and behaviour traits of each Board member.
To learn more about Board DNA process please contact Charlie Regan at Boardroom Metrics at cregan@boardroommetrics.com or call him at (416) 805-8120
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