Spotlight Chair

Is Spotlight Chair right for your board? 

Spotlight Chair is an evaluation for boards of any size or level of experience who are looking to support and enhance their Chair and board effectiveness and recognise their Chair’s strengths. Spotlight Chair can be a stand-alone evaluation or complement any of our other evaluation services.  

Guided by IoD’s Four Pillars of Governance Best Practice, Spotlight Chair assesses your Chair on the four factors of Chair effectiveness: leadership, effective meetings, relationship building and structure and operations. 

Key features of Spotlight Chair are:  

• • Access to your own secure evaluation dashboard to set up and run the evaluation to your required timelines – saving you, your Chair and your board valuable time. We’ll even send friendly reminders to survey contributors to ensure high-levels of participation.  
  • A 360-style evaluation comprising 40 questions covering the four factors of Chair effectiveness.  
  • The ability for all survey contributors to provide insightful commentary and feedback in a confidential way to encourage candour.  
  • An evaluation report securely shared with the nominated recipient(s) within an hour of the evaluation closing - or when all contributors have completed if sooner.  
  • Easy to interpret results for all survey questions and sections, anonymised contributor commentary, actional recommendations and a guide for the Chair on how to use the evaluation insights.

If your board has previously completed a Spotlight Chair evaluation, we can provide your board with a trend report for a small additional fee.  

Click here for the governance evaluation user guide and FAQs.

If you’re looking for something different, or would like some help deciding which evaluation is right for your board, please  get in touch with our Governance Services team.