Board evaluation

The Socia Board evaluation process aims to ensure that the Board is fully compliant with the UK Corporate Governance Code and uses Socia’s expertise in collaborative leadership to enable the whole Board to develop and improve how it operates. Click here to read details of how we carry out a Board evaluation.

The Socia approach is:

• Time efficient. The evaluation process is designed to make the minimum demands on the valuable time of Board members. Background and factual paper-based information is provided by the Board Secretary to ensure that the limited time with each Board member is focused on the issues of highest value.
• Practical and constructive. The process focuses on providing advice to all Board members that will enable the performance of the Board to improve. Feedback needs to be handled sensitively and plans need to be pragmatic and easy to implement. Questionnaires and ‘tick boxes’ are avoided where possible. We also leave Boards with the tools to carry out their own self evaluations using the same approach in the future.
• Compliant with the code. Never forgetting the need to comply with the UK Governance Code, the report produced by the evaluation process ensures that all the provisions of the code are covered and, at the same time, provides ‘unexpected benefit’ for the Board, i.e. additional value over and above the need to simply comply with the code, if you want to read a copy (PDF) of the code click here.

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