New Ceos And Boards : How To Build A Great Board Relationship - And A Great Board

The success of any Chief Executive Officer depends in no small part on their relationship with the Board of Directors. Author Beverly Behan draws on her experience working with nearly 200 Boards of Directors over the past 25 years in developing this practical book that can help any new Chief Executive Officer build a great board relationship - and a great board. The first section of the book focuses on steps required to build the foundations of a terrific CEO/board relationship - from initial one-on-one's with board members (a critical opportunity most CEO's squander) to developing a constructive working relationship with the Chair/Lead Director. It outlines the different modes in which most boards function and offers insights about the shift nearly every board in the world currently wants to make in working with management. New CEOs need to understand the type of board they've inherited from their predecessor in order to determine how best to work with that board effectively. The second section focuses on steps a CEO can take to transform the board they've inherited into one that adds significant value for management, shareholders and other stakeholders. This section covers genuinely impactful board and director evaluations - and discusses how to deploy these tools effectively in dealing with thorny issues of director performance management, one of the biggest shortcomings in governance today. It also introduces the concepts of Board 2.0, Board Composition Benchmarking and the New Director 360 - three innovations every new CEO should know about.The final chapter, Building a Board-Worthy Executive Team, discusses proactive steps that CEOs can take to dramatically improve the board's effectiveness while earning kudo's from directors for these efforts. This is "low hanging fruit" in the boardroom that any Chief Executive would be wise to leverage.Replete with practical ideas - some time-tested, others highly innovative -this book offers a wealth of constructive advice that a new CEO can begin using immediately to lay the foundations of a terrific CEO/board relationship and create notable improvements in the Board of Directors, itself.

• | Author: Beverly Behan
• | Publisher: Board Advisor, Llc
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1736216120
• | ISBN-13: 9781736216125