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Do you know any board members who could benefit from taking their board's #CorpGov practices "to a whole new level"? According to the Vice Chair of the board, the board discussion I facilitated to address their board’s risk oversight capabilities took the board “to a whole new level.” During our debrief, the Vice Chair and I both felt other boards could benefit from engaging in a similar discussion.

Recently, the holding company board of a well known, large Canadian, privately-held family enterprise became alarmed about their operating company board’s inability to comprehend a potentially catastrophic risk when they approved a management recommendation. They invited me to a special corporate governance meeting with key board members to help them improve their board’s risk oversight effectiveness.

The two-hour discussion, guided by four slides (http://corpgov.posterous.com/), helped participating board members gain a fresh perspective about their situation and clarify their priorities for improving the board’s effectiveness. Every board member had at least one “aha” moment during the meeting, and in the end all endorsed a new approach for restructuring the board to achieve risk-astute performance.

If you know of any board members who could similarly benefit from gaining new insights into the underlying drivers of board effectiveness, please extend my offer to meet with them personally and discuss how my research-backed methodology (http://is.gd/xwB2sk) might also help their boards deliver a whole new level of performance. Should you be interested in learning more, please join me for a live chat on Nurph http://nurph.com/TrustEnabler, at noon New York time on Thursday, April 7 (tomorrow). I look forward to answering your questions.

Long post from Deck.ly   2011-04-06T15:15:01   View on Twitter