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For sitting directors

Effectiveness, committee fit, renewal readiness. With evidence.

A board evaluation tells the board how it is doing. It rarely tells you, in evidence a chair would accept, how you are doing. boardiqo does, privately, before renewal season, a committee chair appointment or an external evaluation.

When directors use it

Four moments where evidence beats reputation

Renewal at end of term

The nomination committee will ask what you contributed. A report with twelve evidenced scores answers before the question is asked.

Stepping up to chair a committee

Committee fit is a competency profile, not seniority. Know where your evidence supports the chair role and where it does not yet.

Before an external board evaluation

Read your own profile before a facilitator reads it to the chair. Build the artefacts that are missing while there is time.

A pattern you suspect in yourself

Deference, filtered information, avoidance of conflict: the failure-pattern screen reads early signals you cannot see from inside the room.

EXHIBIT 1

Committee fit is a shape: this profile matches an audit committee's demand on eight competencies and falls short on risk oversight, where the gap is evidence, not judgment

C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C9C10C11C121.003.005.00
Earned score
Evidence cap (hatched: unproven headroom)
Audit committee demand profile (illustrative)
  • C1Strategic judgment4.32 / cap 5.00
  • C2Financial acumen4.05 / cap 4.50
  • C3Risk oversight3.25 / cap 3.25
  • C4Technology, cyber & AI literacy4.60 / cap 5.00
  • C5Regulatory & legal awareness3.80 / cap 4.50
  • C6Human capital & talent oversight3.40 / cap 4.00
  • C7ESG & stakeholder judgment4.00 / cap 4.00
  • C8Crisis & reputation management3.00 / cap 3.25
  • C9Behavioral governance4.10 / cap 4.50
  • C10Independence & conflict resilience3.60 / cap 4.50
  • C11Boardroom contribution & follow-through4.20 / cap 5.00
  • C12Board system contribution3.70 / cap 4.00

Basis: illustrative sitting-director profile (synthetic) overlaid with an illustrative audit-committee demand profile. Demand profiles weight the competencies a committee relies on most.

EXHIBIT 2

Renewal readiness is read in three questions a chair asks, and each has an evidenced answer in the report

The chair's questionWhere the report answers itIllustrative reading
What did you contribute?C11 Boardroom contribution & follow-through, with minuted interventions graded as evidence4.20 · Strong evidence
Did you challenge when it mattered?C1, C3, C9 and the FP4 deference screen: dissent on the record, or its absenceFP4 not detected · dissent minuted twice
Is your skill set still what the strategy needs?Twelve-competency profile against the board's demand map, C4 technology and AI in particular4.60 · Strong evidence

Basis: boardiqo report sections mapped to the questions nomination committees typically put to directors at renewal. Illustrative readings from the synthetic sample profile.

EXHIBIT 3

Sitting directors already hold the strongest evidence class: minutes, committee memoranda and decision records grade Strong when they are attributable to you

Evidence you already holdTypical gradeCondition
Board or committee minutes recording your intervention, dissent or questionStrong · cap 5.00Attributable to you by name or role; contemporaneous.
Committee memoranda you authored or materially shapedStrong · cap 5.00Authorship or documented contribution; scope of the committee's remit.
Decision records with your position on the recordGood · cap 4.50Position recorded; outcome need not be favourable to score.
Post-mortems, incident reviews, crisis debriefsGood · cap 4.50Direct evidence for C8 and C9 when your role is documented.
External evaluation extracts concerning youModerate · cap 4.00Attributable but interpretive; supports, does not establish.
Self-description without an artefactWeak · cap 3.25Caps at 3.25 regardless of the account.

Basis: boardiqo evidence grading. Confidential documents are graded, never reproduced in the report; you may redact names before attaching.

Your board does not see this. Unless you show it.

boardiqo is bought by you and reports to you. Boards and nomination committees see nothing unless you share the report yourself. If your board later adopts a board workspace, your individual report remains yours; the chair sees only the aggregate map.

Confidentiality and control

Read your profile before the committee does.