As part of a webinar presented by members of the Board Effectiveness Guild, Alex Cameron discusses the behaviours and practices that enable or inhibit a productive dynamic between executives and non-execs in corporate boards and Chris Stamp considers understanding the importance of the role of the SID.

The typical board is not a team in the conventional sense of this term. A board includes two distinct groups, the executive and non-exec members have different roles but a common aim, namely to ensure the sustainable future of the business. The executives run the business on a daily basis and use the non-execs’ experience to improve their individual and collective performance. The non-execs do not run the business. Their role is to scrutinise the work of the executives and to contribute their experience to enable the best decisions possible to enable the performance of the executives. Jointly executives and non-execs need to be able to agree the strategic direction of the business to ensure its long-term success.

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