A board review produces recommendations. Acting on them requires priorities, ownership and a workable plan. This guide explores how to carry the findings into the board’s day-to-day work.
Free PDF · 8 pages · Implementation guide
By Erika Eliasson-Norris, Beyond Governance
- Translate findings into clear, measurable objectives
- Agree responsibilities and practical next steps
- Build support for changes across the organisation
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What happens after the board review
Once a board effectiveness review is complete, the board has to decide what to do with the findings. Recommendations may affect meeting practices, responsibilities or relationships across several functions. Progress depends on making those changes understandable and achievable.
Board Effectiveness Reviews: Living With the Outcomes, by Erika Eliasson-Norris, focuses on that implementation work. It explores how to set objectives, build a roadmap, secure support and delegate responsibility so that the review can inform practical improvements.
What you will find inside
Objectives that can be followed up
Consider how recommendations can become specific, time-bound objectives and how the board will recognise progress.
Support for the changes
Explore how to make recommendations understandable and achievable for the directors, executives and teams involved.
A practical roadmap
Read about connecting strategic intentions with the actions needed to implement them, taking account of board structure and responsibilities.
Delegation and coordination
Consider who should lead each action and how different functions can contribute without losing sight of accountability.
Who the guide is for
Board Chairs, company secretaries, directors and governance professionals responsible for taking a board evaluation from its final report into an agreed programme of action.
An action worth testing
For each recommendation, consider the practical change needed, who will own it and how progress will be assessed. The guide explores these connections between objectives, delegation and implementation.
Why download the guide
It addresses the work that follows the review. Use it to challenge an action plan that is too broad, lacks clear responsibility or does not explain how the board will know whether anything has improved.
How to use it
Read it with your review findings and draft action plan. Identify the recommendations that need clearer ownership, more realistic sequencing or further discussion with the people expected to deliver them.
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Give your board review recommendations a clearer route into action.
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Related resources
The Board Effectiveness Self Assessment
Forward Agenda Planning for Boards and Committees
Further support
Explore our board effectiveness reviews if you are planning a review of your board.
