An Effective Board Shapes the Future of Educational Excellence
Strategic decision-making and accountability drive academic success.
Education
Elevating educational standards: This should be championed by your board
Effective board governance is paramount for the education sector as it is the backbone of institutional success and progress. Boards in educational settings are entrusted with the responsibility of setting strategic direction, ensuring fiscal responsibility, and maintaining accountability to their multiple stakeholders. Through their governance practices, boards establish policies that help shape the educational landscape, guide decision-making, and foster an environment conducive to academic excellence. By setting a high bare for their own performance and effectiveness the board helps raise the bar for educational standards and excellence.
How effective is your board compared to similar education sector boards?
You can find out using our world class, sophisticated benchmarking that is displayed in a clear and easy to understand way.
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How Board Benchmarking helps organisations in the education sector
By conducting regular reviews, educational boards can identify areas for improvement, enhance accountability, and optimise their strategic approach to addressing the institution’s and its stakeholders’ evolving needs. Additionally, board reviews help foster a culture of continuous learning and development among board members, encouraging them to stay informed about best governance practices and to adapt to changing educational landscapes. Ultimately, a thorough board review is essential for ensuring that educational institutions have a governance framework that is responsive, transparent, and aligned with their mission of providing quality education.
THE GOLD STANDARD
Unlock easy to understand data and insights with our benchmarked reporting
Because we have such a large database we can also ensure that large organisations are benchmarked against larger organisations and smaller ones against smaller ones in the same industry or sector. This adds further validity and value to the benchmarked results.
The process starts with a world class, easy to use survey
The 7 point response scale provides just the right calibration of survey responses. Our surveys are even designed to work with a screen reader to cater for those who are vision impaired.
See at a glance see how your board is benchmarked against comparable boards
Our performance dial shows you instantly where your board sits compared to board of similar organisations. If you previously used our survey you will also see the extent to which you board’s benchmarking has changed since your prior survey/review.
See how your board measures up on the most important areas of a board’s effectiveness
Our easy to understand colour coding shows you how your board performs in each individual category that is important for a boards effectiveness. “Hot spots” are instantly identified.
See how director and executive responses differ for each survey item
When you include executives in the survey process we show you how their responses compare whilst protecting their anonymity.
Get an overview of the highest and lowest benchmarked survey items
Get an overview of the highest and lowest rated items, based on their benchmarking – not based on the average rating but how that average compares to the responses of other boards. This is where our sophisticated benchmarking makes all the difference!
All written responses are merged and included verbatim
All written responses of directors and executives are merged together to protect the anonymity of respondents. This encourages candid responses.
