Board Effectiveness Review, NED and Board Coaching

Board coaching

Achieving sustainable behavioural change that delivers on dynamics, insights and governance

What you can expect

At MRA we understand the demands and pressure that the ever-changing landscape of uncertainty brings to Boards. How can you be fit for the future when the future is now? Beyond today, the future continues to hold many challenges; in business disruptions due to geo-political issues, economic challenges, accelerating technologies and of course increasingly complex stakeholder management and relationships. We know it is a balancing act to manage the conflict between short-term interests and long-term impact.

You will be partnered by our distinctly credentialed Executive coaches, who also are also qualified in Corporate Governance and Statutory Directorship, providing an unrivalled approach.

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Objective, insights led approach

With 100% transparency to take you to the next level of effectiveness

Qualified in Corporate Governance and Statutory Directorship

The MRA Team Coaches combine extensive business understanding as well as Board Coaching expertise to ensure an impactful experience for your Board

Fit for the future

An exceptional, well governed Board, fit to face the future

Our strategic principles

Using the MRA strategic principles diagnostic tool we will deeply listen to you, to your stakeholders and to the broader organisation, layering relational interconnectedness through the lens of good governance. We are then able to translate the outputs into actionable, measurable insights designed around the four strategic principles of our diagnostic tool and aligned to our Global Board Excellence Framework:

Strategic Principle

Leadership objectives and strategy, purpose and succession planning

Structure Principle

Culture, capability and ethics, roles and responsibilities, policies and procedures

Standards Principle

Corporate Governance, risk management, financial re-routing, internal control, compliance and investor relations

Systemic Principle

Strategic alignment with shareholders and other key stakeholders through the lens of interdependent leadership and oversight

Programme overview

Individual, team and organisation insights-led interviews

We will begin our partnership by conducting individual interviews with the Board (including Non-Executive Directors), selected shareholders and broader stakeholders across your organisation using our strategic principles diagnostic to drive the conversations in a holistic and consistent manner. Providing transparent system-wide insights to identify areas of alignment and opportunities for growth.

Individual and collective team ‘leadership’ psychometric profiling

An exceptional, well governed Board will be best served by Directors with high self-awareness at both an individual and collective level. Working with the Hogan Leadership suite of psychometric profiling reports (HPI, MVPI, HDS), everyone on the Board will undertake a full profiling experience. Individual reports will then be collated to create a Board report giving deep insight into the accumulation of personalities and their impact on one another, and therefore the leadership of the organisation. This intensive experience using a world-leading psychometric framework brings clarity and insight, and a clear plan of action to life.

Live Board Effectiveness observation

Your Executive Coaches will appraise the Board during a standard Board meeting by conducting an effectiveness observation. Understanding the dynamics of the Board, the psychological roles playing out, and the levels of support and challenge, will enable robust feedback on the overall effectiveness of the Board, as a team when it comes together. We will consider feedback across the governance areas of:

Roles & responsibilities
Composition & structure
Personal qualities and contribution
Relationship management
Meeting management
Communication & reporting
Knowledge across key areas – finance, risk management, marketing strategy, HR, performance and change management
Ethical conduct

Strategic Principles Board Coaching, including Corporate Governance coaching on identified areas

A programme of Board coaching built upon your strategic insights to attend to Board challenges and opportunities, including areas around corporate governance, specifically targeted at areas of lower compliance. Designed to ensure that effective governance of your Board is driving strategic decision making, minimising risks and ensuring compliance of legal frameworks resulting in a more profitable, stable organisation, with you as the Board at its core.

What Our Clients Say

The fundamental requirement of any Board is to challenge itself...
“Board effectiveness and Board Coaching are critical if Boards are to govern themselves well and to create value for their stakeholders and their people. I believe that this investment has been pivotal to the Board I have led, after all, the fundamental requirement of any Board is to challenge itself – and this has definitely challenged us all”

Stefan T
MD

Unlock your potential today

When you are ready to take the next step in your professional coaching journey please reach out to our team at MRA and we will be very happy to schedule a call to ensure you are confident in the programme you have selected.