Board Skills Matrix Templates - Customised To Your Needs

The Skills Matrix is a simple and comprehensive way for boards to collect and analyse director capability.

Collect and report director capability across key skills and capabilities

When we first looked at Board Outlook, it was the Skills Matrix module that caught my eye. Probably because I’d been quite unsatisfied with every skills matrix compilation process that I’d been involved in.

My excitement was justified - the depth of granularity, the intuitive ranking methodology and the capacity to moderate responses all contributed to outcomes that were cogent, well accepted by participants and, most importantly, provided a clear basis for making decisions going forward.

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Leverage comprehensive templates, or customise to suit your specific requirements

We have extensive templates covering all major sectors across the ASX100, as well as NFP, Government and Sporting templates.

These templates benchmark all listed skills disclosed through relevant comparable corporate governance statements.

All templates are customisable to your specific requirements - you can adapt to match your current matrix or choose to build your own template from scratch through our online editor.

Better self assessment with calibration

The skills matrix has a unique user interface designed to encourage calibration. Users are asked to calibrate their self assessments against a range of specific experiences

The unique user interface makes it quick to collect a deep information set on skills and experience - the average director takes 20-30 minutes to provide 100+ data points.

A powerful tool to consider board renewal

The skills matrix supports critical board renewal discussions.

Consider your board capabilities as a whole, or by individual director, to ensure you are ahead of skills gaps.

Potential directors can be screened and added to the matrix to identify changes and gaps in future potential configurations.

The matrix automatically re-ranks to provide dynamic feedback as directors are added and removed.

Get a new perspective on skills by highlighting relative strengths and weaknesses

The relative skills matrix report present a very different way of looking at skills of your board. Each director's skills are shown from their strongest to weakest area.

Directors get a better understanding of the unique value they can add, and where to focus on development.

Boards using this view report dramatically deeper conversations at Nominations around relative strengths and weaknesses.

Export direct to corporate governance statement ready PDF

The skills matrix tool includes an automated export of the skills matrix that accelerates the process of reporting to your corporate governance statement

The one pager PDF export de-identifies and aggregates data into a form ready for any publication and/or finalisation by your graphic design team.

Beautiful reporting, instantly

Instantly release beautiful reports in PDF or online, without the hassle and risk of powerpoint or excel. Use interactive online reports or download detailed PDF reporting and summaries to include in your board pack.

Confidentiality and security by design

Traditional board review processes introduce substantial confidentiality risks through data collection and compilation of results. BoardOutlook eliminates the risks of uncontrolled and unencrypted digital and physical artefacts that increase the risk of inadvertent data breach. Using BoardOutlook gives your board the protection of end-to-end security and encryption, supported by annual audits and penetration tests.

Automatic follow up and workflow management

BoardOutlook provides end-to-end workflow management to ensure a hassle free board review processes. The BoardOutlook platform automates follow-ups and reporting, saving days of time and hassle.

Customised to your board

All BoardOutlook templates are customised through the onboarding process, with specifics such as your committee structure, stakeholders and operating units. If required, you have full flexibility to customise questions and template structure. Add or remove questions and change wording to focus on specific areas of most relevance.

Questions that generate real performance discrimination

Many of the traditional questions used in board evaluations get answered the same way by good and bad boards alike. BoardOutlook uses a set of tested qualitative and quantitative questions that are evidence based, and in a format that is difficult to 'game', getting to the heart of performance quickly.

Fast deployment and turnaround (live in hours, reports in weeks)

BoardOutlook has no integrations, which allows rapid deployment (your organisation can be live within hours). Automated reminders, report generation and workflow management mean board review processes are completed in weeks, not months.

A superior user experience designed for boards

BoardOutlook is designed specifically for the unique challenges of board users. The platform is built around beautiful surveys and deep reports designed just for the challenges of boards. All of this means directors find the platform intuitive and enjoyable to use. The full BoardOutlook toolkit (surveys, reporting and skills matrix) is usable with full functionality on phone, tablet or desktop. Perfect for busy directors on the go.

Specifically designed to drive director development

High-performing boards start with high-performing individuals with strong self awareness. The BoardOutlook platform allows boards to move from regulatory requirement to a true development exercise.

Include your management team

BoardOutlook enables you to take a broader view of governance performance, including the management team (without traditional cost or scheduling barriers). Reporting is segmented to enable easy understanding of the consistency and variance between board and management.

Track year-on-year improvement

Traditional board performance can be a once a year event. BoardOutlook allows your board to move to a longitudinal process of ongoing performance improvement. The board can easily track change and improvement over time.

Support when you need it

Real support, when you need it. Our team of highly qualified governance experts is here to help you succeed every step of the way, with support available via phone and email.

Flexible plans to suit your board

Choose the plan that suits your board's size and the level of support you require. Boards always have the option to leverage a highly experienced facilitator in partnership with the BoardOutlook diagnostic. Many boards choose to use BoardOutlook as their default ‘internal’ review solution, with external facilitators providing a view on results as required.

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