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Volunteers Weigh Value of Performance Assessments

MAUI, Hawaii Whether your board is rubber stamp or watchdog, what you want it to be is a challenger, according to Mary Beth Spuck, CEO of The Paragon Group.

By Sarah Snell Cooke | Updated on January 31, 2012
The Paragon Group CEO Mary Beth Spuck led a lively session on the importance and value of board assessments. She emphasized that everyone involved in assessments should know what’s going to happen right from the start.

MAUI, Hawaii — Whether your board is “rubber stamp” or “watchdog,” what you want it to be is a “challenger,” according to Mary Beth Spuck, CEO of The Paragon Group.

Spuck cited various types of board members, as defined by the Filene Research Institute. The rubber stampers just passively approve everything without researching and asking the right questions on management. The scouts are very in-tune to the membership’s needs but exhibit less strength in oversight. The watchdog, Spuck explained, is “when you overuse your strengths, they can become weaknesses and meander into micromanagement.”

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