SPARC Online Governance Evaluation System
SPARC in association with the Institute of Directors in New Zealand (IoD) has developed an Online Governance Evaluation System (OGES) to assist in the evaluation and development of boards in sport and recreation organisations. The OGES is a user-friendly system that enables boards to generate a comprehensive picture of governance effectiveness and creates clear action plans for boards to address development needs.
The system evaluates the board as a whole using the stages contained in SPARC’s Nine Steps to Effective Governance resource (PDF, 1.4 MB).
The OGES contains three modules:
- The whole of board evaluation – to assess the board's processes, outputs and behaviours as a team
- The chair evaluation – to assess the chair's skills, performance and opportunities for development in the role
- The individual director evaluation – to assess the director’s skills, performance and opportunities for development.
Benefits of using the OGES include:
- helping the board to understand its performance against good practice governance
- assisting the board and management to agree on expectations
- enhancing direction setting and policy-making
- improving performance management of the chief executive
- assisting with planning board and director development
- helping board succession planning and assessing the skills of new directors
The information collected by the OGES is confidential and will not be used for any purpose other than the evaluation and development of boards. SPARC and IoD do not use individual results for anything other than establishing benchmarks to provide some comparability for organisations using the tool. The website connection is secure and all data is encrypted before being sent between computers.
To access the SPARC Online Governance Evaluation System please click on the following link: http://sparc.vcrd.co.nz/
For new users a user guide is available to download from the homepage to assist you with the registration and evaluation administering process.
If you have questions regarding the updated Governance Evaluation System please contact vicki.mcloughlin@sparc.org.nz.
Updated | 03 Jun 2009.
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