This Handbook describes how to deliver Board Behavioural Dynamics to optimise Boards of large, highly regulated organisations across multiple jurisdictions.
Board Behavioural Dynamics is the Board’s ability to come together effectively as a collective body. It is important because Board effectiveness requires a behavioural dynamics focus, in addition to a decision focus. This Handbook exposes the current architecture for Board Behavioural Dynamics; six processes across three maturity approaches, all operating within a complex ecosystem and with varying assignment of responsibility. We present this architecture in six detailed Maturity Maps and a Maturity Matrix which can be used to identify the proportional response to each Board’s circumstances.
Our process-led review exposed several common issues linked to policy and practice gaps which are limiting the deliberate application of Board Behavioural Dynamics. We make three recommendations to strategically address these: adopting the Board Behavioural Dynamics architecture as set out in the Handbook; clarifying the Nomination Committee’s core functions and its enablers; and additional investigation into Board Behavioural Dynamics.
The Handbook is an open resource which will continue to develop.