
to evaluate your board of directors


You want to evaluate your board of directors, but aren’t sure of the best questions.
Also, you’re concerned that board members won’t answer openly if survey is administered internally.
We make it easy for you, with professional questionnaires sent directly from us, and quick anonymized reporting.
Self-evaluate your board of directors easily, professionally.
Board Self-Evaluation
Bestyrelsesevaluering / styreevaluering / styrelse- och VD-utvärdering
Regular, high quality board evaluations are important, not only for continuous improvement of your board’s performance, but also to maintain or improve your organization’s reputation among shareholders and other stakeholders. If you are following your country’s latest corporate and foundation / non-profit governance guidelines, you will know that many countries recommend that you self-evaluate your board’s performance every year, and that you employ an outside company to conduct a more in-depth, unbiased external board evaluation approximately every third year.
We offer you a “hybrid” self-evaluation, meaning that instead of you developing and running a survey internally, using valuable staff time and compromising anonymity, we send your board members links to our proven questionnaires, and provide a summary report with anonymous comments. You get an honest view of how your board is performing, quickly and professionally but without deeper, more expensive consulting help. This can be a perfect solution for meeting the board evaluation requirements within your country’s good governance guidelines. It is also a great solution for companies who have previously worked with Leadership Advisor Group, to self-evaluate using the same survey in order to compare with prior years. Self-evaluate your board of directors easily, professionally using our help!

OnlineBoardEvaluations specializes in online board of directors self-evaluation questionnaires. Our surveys are a service from Leadership Advisor Group, based on their many years of professional expertise conducting board evaluations for some of the top companies and foundations in UK and Scandinavia (see references and testimonials here).
Our questionnaires are specifically designed to match the UK, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish national recommendations on corporate governance. We also have questionnaires adapted for foundation (fond / stiftelse) and non-profit governance. We ensure our questionnaires are continuously updated to match the latest country guidelines for how to evaluate boards.
We will help you to get feedback on nationally-recommended topics like whether your board is putting enough time into thinking about strategy, whether it is aware of and monitoring risks, how strong the relationship is between the board and company management, and whether meetings are perceived to be effective. Surveys can also include different levels of depth on performance of committees, chairman and vice chairman, and anonymized peer-to-peer evaluation of individual board members. We are experienced in covering a range of topics that will help your board achieve compliance with national recommendations and also go beyond toward becoming a world-class board.
Our reports give you valuable insights and provide a good foundation for helping your board discuss actions for improvement.

You Can Choose From These Self-Evaluation Questionnaires
Standard
For organizations new to board evaluation, or fulfilling requirements for annual self-evaluation
COMPREHENSIVE
For boards who want more depth and detail, to enable deeper discussion about opportunities to improve board effectiveness
REPEAt
For boards who have previously worked with OnlineBoardEvaluations or Leadership Advisor Group
Customized
For boards who prefer to use their own questionnaire
If you prefer to do an external evaluation (conducted by a partner outside your organization, and strongly recommended every third year), we will put you in touch with our colleagues at Leadership Advisor Group. They will work with you to create a tailor-made approach that helps you uncover and tackle issues that might otherwise remain hidden. They will combine methods such as an online questionnaire customized especially for your company, in-depth personal interviews of board members and executives, anonymized assessment of individual board member performance, psychometric profiling of board member work styles, observation of board meetings, analysis of board material and time spent, benchmarking of your board vs peers (from their large database of prior evaluations), as well as workshops to highlight ways to become a world-class board.
Benefits and Features
Pre-tested questionnaires
Based on best practice from Leadership Advisor Group's many years of experience conducting board evaluations.
Insightful reports
Easy-to-understand reports and graphs help you clarify the strengths of your board as well as opportunities for improvement.
Flexible set-up
Invite only board members or include company executives. Add questions about performance of individuals and committees, or use your own questionnaire.
Quick results
We’ll create and send the report within two weeks of survey completion. We do the work to send links and reminders.
Measure progress
Upon request we store your results so you can easily repeat the process annually and check your progress.
Scandinavian / UK experts
We know the good-governance guidelines in UK, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and adapt the questionnaires to match.
Benefits and Features
Pre-tested questionnaires
Based on best practice from Leadership Advisor Group's years of experience as an external facilitator.
Insightful reports
Easy-to-understand reports and graphs help you clarify the strengths of your board as well as opportunities for improvement.
Flexible set-up
Invite only board members or include company executives. Add questions about performance of individuals and committees, or use your own questionnaire.
Quick results
We’ll create and send the report within two weeks of survey completion. We do the work to send links and reminders.
Measure progress
Upon request we store your results so you can easily repeat the process annually and check your progress.
Scandinavian / UK experts
We know the good-governance guidelines in UK, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and adapt the questionnaires to match.
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Resources

Governance Guidelines
The latest governance guidelines for corporations and foundations can be hard to locate, so we’ve collected them here for you.

Recommended Reading
In this section we’ll help you to stay up-to-date with the latest thinking on how to professionalize the boards of corporations, foundations and non-profits.

Latest Analyses
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