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How Boardspan's Skills Analysis Works

Our multi-dimensional assessment maps director capabilities to your organization’s strategic goals, giving you clarity and direction as you build and evolve a value-adding board. With the Board Skills Analysis, you gain:  

  • Skills Matrix: Evaluate director knowledge and experience across industry, functional, and governance domains.

  • Gap Analysis: Identify which critical skills are well covered and where gaps remain.

  • Importance Weighting: Understand which skills matter most to board effectiveness.

  • Committee Planning: Visualize director distribution across committee and chair roles for load balancing, availability, scenario planning.

  • Tenure Map: Analyze collective director tenure to ensure appropriate balance of institutional knowledge and fresh perspective. 

The result: Actionable insights and expert recommendations to strengthen board composition, recruitment, committee rotations, director development, and succession planning.

Strengthen your board’s impact. Reach out to boardassessments@boardspan.com to get started. 

Get the Skills Data You Need and So Much More

Mapping Expertise to Strategic Objectives

A traditional matrix simply lists director skills. Our analysis clarifies which skills are most relevant today, which will be needed in the future, and which may need to be fortified with new talent or director education, giving you a roadmap for building a board that can provide high-impact strategic guidance.

From Insight to Action

Gathering the whole board’s perspective on critical skills and expertise can surface emerging needs and reshape recruiting priorities. Our comprehensive report lays the foundation for an informed plan to guide recruitment, committee composition, director development, and leadership succession.

Why It Matters

Strategy evolves, and so must the board’s collective expertise. This tool gives your board an opportunity to recognize change and act on it, ultimately ensuring it has the capabilities needed to govern effectively and add value.

See what your board’s skills data reveals.

Get your customized Board Skills Analysis 

Email boardassessments@boardspan.com to get started.

Three Purposeful Steps to Strategy-Aligned Board Expertise

1 Director-Level Mapping

Directors complete a structured skills survey across key domains - functional, industry, and governance.

2 In-Context Gap & Importance Analysis

We correlate the board’s skill profile with your strategic priorities and identify what's both present and urgently needed.

3 Actionable Insights & Recommendations

You receive reports with individual and collective findings, highlighting priority areas for strengthening via recruitment, committee alignment, training, or succession planning. 

 

Insight You Can Trust—Already Used by Leading Boards

“Boardspan’s Skills Analysis gave us clarity on where we excel and where intentional recruitment was essential."

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