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A powerful process for building governance gain.
AssessmentWORKS™ is a comprehensive and challenging board self-assessment process that has been proven over many years through successful use by hospitals, hospital associations and other not-for-profit clients nationwide.
AssessmentWORKS™ enables boards of trustees to better understand their strengths and weaknesses, and develop action plans to improve board performance, close governance gaps and create real governance gain.
We believe conducting a board self-assessment is critical to long-term governance and ultimately organizational success, so we offer our AssessmentWORKS™ tools in a variety of ways to best meet your needs. Chose from our full package which includes our complete assistance from self-assessment criteria selection to implementation and analysis; or, purchase our CD and use the tools to create and implement your customized board self-assessment on your own.
Our AssessmentWORKS™ Package
The Walker Company offers an easy, affordable way to assess board performance,  helping your board to provide the highest level of leadership and governance decision-making. Our comprehensive board self-assessment process allows you customize the assessment to your individual needs, assessing overall board performance, committee performance and individual trustees’ performance.
We’ll work with you to create a board self-assessment instrument and process that works for your organization. We conduct assessments online, use printed questionnaires, or offer a combination of both. Our objective is to help your trustees’ understand their strengths and weaknesses, and develop an action plan to improve board performance that improves the organization’s governance effectiveness.
Our process includes:
- Development of customized leadership effectiveness rating criteria using our exclusive AssessmentWORKS™ Self-Assessment Organizer
- Self-assessment administration, including development of online and printed surveys
- Development of a comprehensive printed or PowerPoint® report, including graphs, charts and key themes and findings
- On-site or online presentation of self-assessment results
- Assistance with development of a board leadership improvement plan using our “Governance Gain” leadership improvement prioritization toolkit
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Our CD Toolkit
The AssessmentWORKS™ Governance Self-Assessment Toolkit contains everything you’ll need to implement a governance self-assessment that can power your board to new heights of leadership accountability and effectiveness.
The toolkit has been designed to give you maximum flexibility to define the leadership process and criteria that are right for your board.
Start your self-assessment process by following the Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Governance Self-Assessment. It will easily guide you in how to use the forms and resources included in the toolkit. The toolkit includes:
- Full board self-assessment tools, including a Governance Self-Assessment Organizer, a self-assessment survey questionnaire template, and sample reports and correspondence.
- Board committees self-assessment tools, including a Committee Self-Assessment Organizer, questionnaire templates and sample correspondence.
- Peer evaluation tools, including an assessment template, a template for reporting assessment results and sample correspondence.
- Tools to help you prepare for meaningful governance gain, including instructions and a Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet formatted to prioritize your governance improvement ideas, a sample analysis, and 101 ideas for specific ways to improve governing leadership effectiveness.
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