Main benefits
The purpose of the Board Effectiveness Survey is to identify actions which can be taken to improve the effectiveness or performance of a board. Board members are taken through a comprehensive range of issues relevant to the board’s effectiveness in a structured way.
The benefits of using the Board Effectiveness Survey include:
- many issues that may not otherwise be included as part of a board review are considered
- board members consider the issues in a consistent way by responding to the same survey statements in the same order and using the same response scale
- board member views are equally weighted and aren’t biased or impacted by the view or emotions of other members or consultants
- board members are able to balance their consideration of each issue against the other issues in a well designed survey that takes less than 30 minutes
- benchmarking the board’s responses against other boards enables the prioritisation of issues
- the survey is independently carried out by Insync Surveys, which offers anonymity to respondents and encourages candid responses
This survey is a very useful, cost effective and unobtrusive way to quickly highlight possible issues that may need further attention. The survey does not replace the need to take appropriate action in relation to issues highlighted, nor does it override the need to take other steps to review and improve board effectiveness.
