Evaluations
One of the most common things we hear from board leadership is that their members aren’t engaging. As with all problem solving, the best way to determine solutions is to gather data. So we suggest you ask your board to evaluate your meetings and their performance.
This will help you determine where changes need to be made to engage your members more effectively. After all, your board members’ performance could be based on their feeling undervalued, disinterested, or simply overwhelmed. Digging into the data from evaluations will help you to build solutions that truly solve for the real problems at hand.
Be sure not to just gather the data without doing something with it.
Consider:
Tasking your governance committee to review the assessments and make recommendations to the board for the following year.
Offering board training on a quarterly basis on topics that were highlighted in these assessments.
Creating an optional peer support/buddy program between those board members who are doing well in one area and those struggling with it.
