Building Better Boards.
The journey from being cheerleaders to being champions.
"Our board has no issues" is often the biggest issue of all. Excellence Enablers' board evaluation service moves organisations beyond the compliance checklist toward an honest, structured assessment of board performance — as a unit, individual directors, and a chairperson-led team. We help boards shift from being cheerleaders of management to being genuine champions of the company's long-term interests. Using confidential director evaluation interviews, we surface blind spots, benchmark against governance best practices, and translate findings into an actionable improvement roadmap that strengthens accountability and board dynamics.
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Board evaluation is an annual exercise, to assess how well the Board, its committees, the Chairperson of the Board and individual Directors have been performing. This exercise is mandatory for listed companies as per SEBI LODR Regulations, 2015. However, Boards that believe in value addition, derive value out of it, and treat it more than just a compliance item or a tick-box item.
It is believed that an objective process is best undertaken by external experts. When evaluation is undertaken by an external expert, it gives an outside-in view, as also throws up suggestions on how to improve existing processes of the Board and the committees. The external facilitator can also point to peer benchmarking and give Directors a safe space to provide feedback. One major requirement is that the external expert should have practical Board experience, for him/her to truly add value. While conducting the process in-house has cost advantages, Directors tend to hold back when an in-house employee has access to the responses being given. It may also compromise the confidentiality of the process, leading to possible embarrassment.
It usually takes 6 to 10 weeks - administering questionnaires, studying the responses, one-on-one interactions with Directors, and preparing a final report, followed by a presentation of the findings to the Board.
Once a year, at minimum — that is both the norm and the regulatory expectation for listed Indian companies. Many Boards bring in an external facilitator for a more thorough review once every two or three years, while conducting in-house evaluations in the other years. This also gives the Board enough time to work on the feedback and the actionables identified by the Board, and enhances the quality of in-house evaluation.
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