Many boards meet often and decide little. We help you organise how the board and its committees work: who sits on them, what each one is responsible for, what reaches the table, and how decisions are followed up once the meeting ends.
Agendas are crowded, papers arrive late, and the session ends without clear decisions.
Nobody is sure where a committee's authority ends and the board's begins.
You need a charter and terms of reference that guide the work from the first meeting.
Independence, qualifications or mandatory committees, and you want to be sure you meet them.
The balance of executive, non-executive and independent members, and selection criteria.
Board charter and terms for audit, nomination and remuneration, and risk committees as you need them.
Agenda template, when papers must arrive, how minutes are written and recommendations tracked.
What goes to the board and what management decides, and at what level of detail.
Sets out responsibilities, authority, how meetings run and how decisions are taken.
Each committee gets its mandate, size, powers and reporting line.
An agenda, minutes and decision tracker the board secretary can use straight away.
We walk the members through the framework and take their comments before adoption.
We read the latest minutes and talk with the chair and the board secretary.
We summarise what slows the board down and agree priorities with you.
We draft the charter, terms and templates, and revise them with the members' comments.
We attend or review the first round of meetings after rollout and fix what does not work.