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Governance Reality Check.

Test the board rating with one honest question, because a board rated from inside its own meetings looks better than it is.

Ask this of yourself and, separately, of the board chair and one board member: when did your board last make a hard decision that leadership did not drive? And does every board member know, plainly, the difference between governing the organization and volunteering for it?

Leader's answer

Board chair's answer

Board member's answer

Read them together

Was there a real, recent decision the board drove, or only approvals?

Do the answers agree, or describe three different boards?

Does anyone treat the board's job as pitching in?

If the board mostly nods along, or thinks its job is to help, or the answers diverge, the board is weaker than the minutes suggest. Trust the honest answer.

If this is a repeat run (from Reset Board Engagement)

Your first-run answers, as the baseline

This run: is the board deciding, holding its line, and owning the mission more than before?

Your answers stay in your browser on this page and are never sent anywhere. Use Save or print to keep your copy.

This sits beside the diagnostic at the start and beside the reset movement note at the end. Back to the guide, or start over.