Improve committee performance with an evaluation of its work

• Date: 01 December 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/ban.30597
• Published date: 01 December 2017

B&A For Board Members

DOI 10.1002/ban © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company • All rights reserved

How should you evaluate

your executive director?

Your administrator is a professional and there-

fore deserves a professional evaluation. That’s why

it is unfair to evaluate the CEO on matters that

are essentially personality traits.

Instead, evaluate the executive on progress and

accomplishment of board goals. At some point

during the work year, the board needs to provide

the administrator with goals and objectives for

the coming year and commit to evaluating perfor-

mance on them. ■

Administrator evaluation procedures

The board and CEO meet for a pre-evaluation

conference to discuss the goals and objectives of

the evaluation.

Board members, under the direction of the board

chair, complete the evaluation form independently.

The chair compiles the evaluation results, and

the full board comes to consensus on the contents

of the executive’s evaluation.

The board, the chair or a board committee meet

with the executive director to discuss the evalua-

tion results.

At a later date, the CEO responds to the board’s

evaluation.

The board finalizes the evaluation.

The board makes its decision about compensa-

tion and benefits adjustments for the executive. ■

Committee Meeting Evaluation

Complete this evaluation of the committee meeting you just attended. Check each item “Adequate” or “Needs Improvement.”

Return the completed form to the committee chair.

Evaluation of _________________ Committee Meeting Date _________________

Chaired by: _________________

Needs

Adequate Improvement

Support materials were received and reviewed by all members prior to the meeting. ❏ ❏

The meeting was businesslike and results-oriented. ❏ ❏

We limited our discussion to agenda items only. ❏ ❏

The chair guided the meeting and helped form recommendations. ❏ ❏

Everyone contributed to the meeting in a positive way. ❏ ❏

Our meeting room was comfortable and conducive to discussion. ❏ ❏

The meeting began and concluded on time. ❏ ❏

There was adequate reason for us to meet. ❏ ❏

Our executive director or his or her designee attended the meeting to provide

insight and serve as a resource. ❏ ❏

My best suggestion for improving our next meeting is: __________________________________ ■

Improve committee performance with an evaluation of its work

Could your board’s committees use some tweaking? Consider a committee meeting evaluation to spice things up

and ensure they aren’t exceeding the scope of their authority or wasting members’ time. Use the following form: