Governance Assessment Tools

1. Governance Assessment A 21 st Century Leadership Tool

8. Recurring Thematic Questions Accountability & Reporting Composition & Diversity Conflicting Interest s Conflict Resolution Confidentiality Leadership Responsibilities Work Processes

11. Issues Checklist

12. Issues Checklist – Meetings

13. Issues Checklist – Metrics

14. CND Agreement Confidentiality Non-Disclosure Project Scope Defines Rights and Obligations

15. Kickoff Questions Q: How will the Questionnaire be distributed? Q: Will the respondents remain anonymous or have ownership?

16. Kickoff Questions Q: What method will you use to introduce this survey to the respondents i.e. meeting, letter, presentation, global email message, other ? Q: What are the talking points that you will use to describe this survey to the management team ?

17. Kickoff Questions Look at each theme and ask yourselves the following questions: Is this theme important to you? Are we doing this well? Does this area require improvement? Are you meeting your objectives in this area? If this area has shown improvement, how can improvements be sustained?

18. Define Themes & Context

19. Focus Group President & CEO VP & CFO VP & COO Trainers Facilitator Directors Corporate Compliance Chair

21. Facilitator Interview Encourages Response Maintains Anonymity & Confidentiality Raises Issues & Concerns Further refines responses to Part 1 & 2

22. Reports Aggregate score by group for 8 themes Weighted by a + or - value of Yes/No questions vs. Mathematical degree from Multiple Choice Additional data points added from Interviews

23. Analysis – Part 1

24. Tabulation – Benchmarks