Independent Audit Limited

Board effectiveness

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We provide a perspective on what you're currently doing well and where there's room for improvement.

We work with boards on their annual board effectiveness assessment - either giving an independent view or helping you look at your own performance through self-assessment.

We do look at the processes - how the board is supported, forward planning, how time is used...  But we spend much more time on looking at...

...how the board works as a team - the clarity around board responsibilities, how different skills are used, how far the experience is, what's needed now and in the future, how discussion flows

...how decisions are reached - how objectives are agreed, risks and scenarios considered, the clarity of the picture presented, the scope allowed for debate

...how oversight is exercised - how risks are identified, the way the control framework is evaluated, how oversight and the governance structures extend to cover the group.

And more besides.  Our objective is to work in an imaginative and unthreatening way on your board development to help you think through how you might become more effective in driving performance and protecting value.

Look to see how we also help board committees.

Understand better the different aspects and approaches to board effectiveness reviews and the benefits of external board review in our brief on board evaluation: Time well spent. 

And a quick look at board risk is set out in our "Little blue book of governance pitfalls".