Does the board actively recruit new board members to form a pipeline of potential board director candidates? Does the board have a designated process for orienting new board members? To what extent do you agree with the following statement: The board needs to reassess or make improvements in the orientation process. Does the board have an identified process for director education and development?
Do the board members enjoy a special camaraderie with each other? Does the board have a formal process for evaluating the executive director? Does the process for evaluating the executive director need improvement? How would you rate your overall awareness of what the board expects of you in your role as director?
Do you regularly attend board and committee meetings? Do you spend adequate time in reading board minutes, reports, and other materials before board meetings? Rate your level of listening and engagement during board meetings.
Describe your ability to follow up with commitments made during board meetings. Board members should share the good work of their board among their networks. They should always be mindful that their actions and speech inside and outside of the boardroom are a reflection of the organization to the public. This includes knowing the committees and their functions and being willing to serve on at least one committee.
One of the first duties of every new board member is to seek their own replacement. Board members should evaluate themselves on their willingness to seek their own replacement and recruit new board candidates early in their term. Board members should evaluate themselves with regard to spending adequate time in preparing for board meetings and committee meetings. They should also honestly evaluate their participation in board discussions and debates. While serving on a board is an important responsibility, board members should not consider their role a chore.
Unless they are re-elected, their service is finished at the end of their term. Time spent on the board should be a rewarding and satisfying experience.
Board members of non-profit boards should take an active part in fundraising. They are usually also expected to give their own personal financial contribution in excess of membership dues.
This checklist of self-assessment items is not comprehensive, but it will give every board a little food for thought. It's also best if each member can provide anonymous input to the evaluation questionnaire.
Boards can often get much more honest feedback that way. Results of the evaluation should be included in a Board Development Plan. The status of the implementation of that Plan should be a topic on the agenda of each Board meeting.
There are a wide variety of available tools for evaluating a Board of Directors. However, it's very important that the tool, for example, the questionnaire, you select matches the culture of the people who will respond to the questions, as well as the purpose of your Board evaluation. For example, some cultures consider questions that start with "why" to be disrespectful, while others consider questions about feelings to be disrespectful.
Thus, you should always acculturate the questions in your tool. Here are guidelines to do that. How to Acculturate Tools for Evaluations. If you plan to select from among an already available set of tools, then here are some overall guidelines for doing that. They are excerpted from the book that is listed at the top of the document. The bottom line is that effective boards are those that regularly and candidly ask themselves: "How can we do better?
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