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Board Checkup

How is your board working?

Reflect on your board’s decisions, relationships, and everyday practices. Your answers can help you spot strengths and start a conversation about what might need attention.

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For each statement, choose how often it is true for your board today.

Board decisions

01 · Major proposals reach the board with the alternatives in writing.
02 · Directors know exactly what they are being asked to approve.
03 · After a vote, everyone leaves with the same understanding of what passed.

Leadership changes

04 · The CEO’s goals and authority for the year are written down and agreed.
05 · The board and CEO review their working arrangement at set points.
06 · Open commitments and promises are recorded with owners and dates.

Board and CEO relationships

07 · Everyone knows which decisions belong to the board and which belong to the CEO.
08 · Settled decisions stay settled unless new information arrives.
09 · Board reports give directors what they need without extra requests.

Board practice

10 · Most meeting time goes to discussion and decisions.
11 · Actions agreed at meetings have named owners and dates.
12 · The board improves how it works from one year to the next.
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