Board Effectiveness Training
Ineffective Boards are a huge barrier to growth. Learn how to amplify the strengths of your Board & achieve more with this leadership development program.
100% of participants would recommend this program to a friend or colleague.
Your board amplifies its strengths, clears the obstacles in its own decision making, and leads innovation instead of reviewing it.
- Level
- Boards, Executives
- Group size
- Under 20 · 20–60
- Time
- 1 hour to 2 days
- Format
- In person · Hybrid
- Languages
- English
- Business outcome
- Decision speed, Alignment
Proof
100% would recommend
Boards including CAA, IMPAC (annual and semi-annual board offsites) and Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (Board and Medical Advisory Council)
“Doug facilitated a great workshop for our Board. He was relentless in his goal to help the group achieve success. He challenged the group and brought fresh energy.”
— Helene Kenny, CAA
How we measure
The team leaves with a written action plan, each item tied to a name and a date. Thirty days later we check which items moved and report that back to the sponsor.
Board Effectiveness focuses on practical tools and high gain strategies to deliver results. Learn2’s interactive approach builds a foundation for continued development, and awareness of personal hot spots to work on for increased effectiveness when connecting with others, removing barriers, and demonstrating great leadership in action. Lead innovation and inspire the future.
What Board Effectiveness Looks Like in the Room
An effective board does not agree faster. It decides better. Directors bring the hard question into the meeting instead of saving it for the hallway. They keep the board's job separate from management's job. And they leave with one version of the decision, not five.
Most board effectiveness work stops at a survey. Someone scores the board, writes a report, and the board reads about itself. In this experience the board does the work together. Directors practice the conversations they tend to avoid: the concern nobody voices, the question for the CEO nobody asks, and the decision that keeps coming back to the agenda.
How a Board Effectiveness Session Runs
Directors open by naming where the board gets stuck today, in their own words. Then they practice communication techniques on live board issues, not case studies. Each director sees their own hot spots: the habits that shut a conversation down or push a decision off the table. The session closes with the board clearing the obstacles in its own decision process and agreeing how it will run its next meeting.
Who It Fits
It fits a board facing a trigger: a new CEO, a merger, a succession plan, or a strategy that stalled. It fits a chair who watches the room agree and then watches nothing move.
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre engaged Learn2 to raise the effectiveness of its Board of Directors. At CAA, Helene Kenny said: "Doug facilitated a great workshop for our Board. He was relentless in his goal to help the group achieve success. He challenged the group and brought fresh energy."
What Your Team Takes Away
Build director strength in communication techniques.
Identify and remove obstacles from the decision making process.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What does board effectiveness work cover?
- How the board decides together. Directors practice the conversations they tend to avoid: the concern nobody voices, the question for the CEO nobody asks, and the decision that keeps coming back to the agenda. Each director sees their own hot spots. The board leaves with obstacles cleared from its decision process and an agreement on how it will run its next meeting.
- How is this different from a board evaluation survey?
- A survey scores the board and hands it a report to read about itself. Here the board does the work together, in the room, on live board issues instead of case studies. The change starts in the session, not after the report lands.
- When does a board need a board effectiveness session?
- When it faces a trigger: a new CEO, a merger, a succession plan, or a strategy that stalled. It also fits a chair who watches the room agree and then watches nothing move.
- What does it cost?
- Learn2 facilitation is $10,000 a day plus travel, and the price is the same number in USD, CDN, or EUR. Registered not-for-profits, charities, and associations receive 30% off list.
- Which boards has Learn2 worked with?
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre engaged Learn2 to raise the effectiveness of its Board of Directors. At CAA, Helene Kenny said Doug "was relentless in his goal to help the group achieve success." 100% of participants would recommend the program to a friend or colleague.
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