Board Development

Why is Board Development important?

The Board provides the vision, strategy and leadership for the organisation.  Its role is to ensure the organisation delivers on its aims and objectives and meets the needs of both internal and external stakeholders.  A well-functioning Board is critical to maintaining and improving organisational performance.  To deliver its role, the Board needs processes for monitoring and reviewing its own effectiveness and the know how to improve the performance of the team.

Yet the Board is made up of individuals.  It will only deliver if these individuals are able to work together cohesively – capitalising on their complementary skills and experiences and maximising their collective strength and potential. 

An effective Board:

  • is clear about individual and collective roles and responsibilities
  • has clear processes in place to enable the organisation to deliver its objectives 
  • reviews and evaluates its performance continuously
  • promotes a climate of challenge and support to engender continuous improvement

What Salomons can do for you

Our team has extensive experience of working with Boards.  Our work includes: facilitating strategic planning and board away days; helping to clarify roles and responsibilities; supporting organisational change; and helping to diagnose and address specific development needs through use of 360 degree feedback| and coaching|.

Examples of our work

 Supporting a newly formed Board in a digital software house

The need

The client was expanding rapidly and had become part of a global advertising group.  When the founding partner and Chairman left, the Managing Director appointed a new Board.  The Directors were inexperienced and were finding it hard to make the shift from 'Head of a Specialist area/function' to corporate leader.  The Board needed help to become more effective.

Our role

We worked with the Board to clarify objectives, priorities, roles and responsibilities.  Over a number of months we provided:

  • Coaching to individual Directors, including the Managing Director;
  • Facilitation of a 360 degree feedback progress involving all Directors;
  • Facilitated away days, including action planning and a review of structures;
  • A review of progress.

The outcome

The Board started to act more cohesively and decisively.  It was able to put in place processes that enabled it to stand back from the operational detail.  The Directors became more confident in their role.  The managing partners continue to work with Salomons on an ongoing basis.

For an initial conversation please call our team on either 01892 507635 or 0141 548 8140 or email ask@salomons.org.uk|