Boards and management teams invest a huge amount of time in board meetings coordination, materials and discussions.

What we rarely do is pause afterward and ask: “Did the board actually improve the outcome?”

One practical way to do this is to do a quick assessment of how much the board improved the quality of thinking, decisions and execution on important and complex topics.

Use this cheat sheet of 8 questions to help you assess the board meeting by considering whether the board was well positioned to add value and whether it actually did.