Organisational Repair Index®️ for Boards
Board evaluations tell you whether your board is good at the job. Board ORI® tells you whether your board is true to the job: whether how it behaves matches what it expects of itself, and what changed under pressure.
If you chair a board that has been through an investigation, an inquiry or a sustained period of difficulty, you already know the formal review didn’t capture what actually happened between the people in the room. Board ORI® was built for exactly that. It asks every member the same questions from three perspectives: how the board behaves now, what the board expects of itself, and how it behaved through the period in question.
What is Board ORI?®️
Board ORI® reports on the conditions inside your board across four foundations.
- relational integrity: how board members work with one another: dealing openly and honestly, speaking up, holding each other to account, and keeping the trust that lets a board act as one body.
- decision integrity: how the board makes its decisions: weighing matters fully, drawing on the knowledge it needs, recording agreement and dissent, taking collective responsibility, and seeing decisions through.
- information integrity: whether the board governs on a true and complete picture: honest information from the executive, a board that questions and tests what it is given, and awareness drawn from members and beyond.
- governance integrity: the substantive work of governing: keeping purpose and values driving decisions, setting strategy, overseeing risk and finance, and acting in the interests of the organisation.
What you receive?
The Board ORI® conditions report is prepared for the chair, and it is written to support an honest conversation, not to sit in a drawer. It is a confidential picture of your board’s present condition: where conditions are strong, where they are damaged, and where behaviour falls short of what the board expects of itself.
It shows your board’s strongest and most damaged conditions side by side, carries the board’s own words from the assessment, and closes with repair priorities: the specific conditions to rebuild first, and why.
The report describes the board as a whole, never individual members. Individual responses are confidential and seen only by the practitioner; the board sees only board-level results.
The conditions are read together as a pattern, with the practitioner’s interpretation alongside.
How do engagements work?
Every board member is invited to respond to the same set of statements about the board’s behaviour, on a single agreement scale, in confidence. The practitioner then prepares the conditions report and debriefs the chair in person, before any wider conversation with the board.
It is rare for Board ORI® to be deployed in isolation. It sits inside our advisory and repair work, as evidence for the conversation that follows.
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