Masterful Coaching’s Program for Boards

We help the Chairmen and the board to build a board member capability and teamwork, an effective governance model, and a succession model that will sustain organization success over the long term.

Individually strong, collectively weak. Board members of Fortune 1000 companies are often individually very successful and strong, but can sometimes be collectively weak in making decisions due to posturing and defensiveness, and a tendency to focus on what’s wrong versus what’s missing. (Read this tale of a Board)

Masterful Coaching has a process for building a high performance board that starts with a confidential interview with each board member to discuss issues and opportunities the board faces that to date have been made undiscussable due to being perceived as embarrassing or threatening.

The next step is to ensure a real quality of dialogue between the CEO and board members at board meetings. This involves treating everyone as a colleague, using healthy disagreement as a resource, and discussing the undiscussable.

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Call us @ 617-739-3300 to find out how we might help your board.