In the contemporary global condition of rapid change and disruption, a competent board can provide steady leadership. This will play an increasingly determining role in the success of any organisation. Boards, especially, have the unique ability to boost the value creation process.
About Valpeo Board self-assessment
Is a person able to understand and shape the complexity of a role in all its dimensions?
Valpeo Board self-assessment examines whether Boards are able to play their catalyst role of excellence as a forward-looking entity that shapes the agenda of future contexts, and outperform its peers in sustainable value creation. It shows off your Board, helping you to measure its dynamics and the way it deals with both present risks and future challenges. The self-assessment makes the current role of the Board apparent and demonstrates whether the dynamics between Board Members are optimal in order to avoid becoming an "incompetent group of competent people". Our distinctive and comprehensive methodology is all-inclusive to assess the boards decision-making process and dynamics.
Key features
Holistic approach
Can also be applied to Executive Committees (EXCO)
Completely customisable according to your specific needs
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Business & risk awareness assessments
Average completion time
Some relevant governance compliance checks
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Science behind the product
Method by Elliott Jacques
Our method is based on research by Eliot Jacques, he noticed that workers at different levels of the company had different time horizons. He was a pioneer in defining the interaction and the fit between the complexity of a function, role or organisation and the mental processing capability of an individual. Jaques' breakthrough was the discovery that a person's capability to perform complex tasks is a lifelong evolution. He defines this as 'mental processing capability', or the ability of people to handle complexity in decision-making. Managing complexity can be understood as the attempt to find patterns in order to make complexity easier to handle.
This is an indication of the extent to which a person is cognitively able to solve problems or add value at a certain level of complexity.
We combine Jacques's research with The Theory of Basic Human Values, developed by Shalom H. Schwartz, is an important theory in the field of intercultural research. It measures the universal values that are recognised throughout all major cultures, and therefore in every organisation. Ideally, there are certain similarities between the personal values of the Board members and those of the organisation itself. Schwartz's theory identifies nineteen such motivationally distinct values and describes the dynamic relations amongst them. It also demonstrates how these values are interconnected, since the pursuit of any of these values results in either the amplification of or friction with at least one other value. These nineteen values are visualised in a circular structure and can oppose one another lightly or more strongly, which has generated their arrangement along two bipolar dimensions. We distinguish four important quadrants:
Above-mentioned theoretical frameworks are complemented with our behaviour at work (/within the Board?) assessment which combines six different scientific behavioural models:
Belbin puts people in a team context and evaluates them based on working with others. He discerns nine team roles: Practical Type, Consulting Type, Driving Type, New Ideas Type, Catalyst Type, Critical Judge Type, Supportive Type, Detail Type.
Personality traits in a professional context were measured by Gordon who recognises the following eight main traits: Dominance, Persistence, Mood Stability, Affiliation, Risk Control, Ingenuity, Openness, Energy
The Work & Managerial Style aspects features are based on Reversal Theory by Apter & Smith and Ghiselli respectively, it focuses on an individual’s changeability and flexibility as well as qualities of personality behaviour on a continuum. We distinguish Stimulus Control Style, Serious Mindedness and Planning Style.
Learning styles have been thoroughly studied by Honey & Mumford who determined how individuals learn from their past experiences, namely Actively, Reflectively, Theoretically, or Pragmatically.
Conflict Handling Styles form the counterpart to team roles and have been defined by Thomas & Kilmann as one’s reaction to conflict, and especially a person’s fall-back mode when they deal with conflicts and disagreements. They discern Challenging Style, Resolving Style, Judicial Style, Defusing Style, and Harmonious Style.
The above-mentioned 29 dimensions, are clustered into four meta-competencies as visualised below:
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