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Wondering How Best to Diversify Your Agility Vantage Point?
An Agile Advisory Board can be a Great Answer
This is one of my favorite things to do these days as a culmination of my own agile journey. Whether called a "Board of Advisors", "Advisory Council", "Advisory Committee" or something else, the primary function of a non-governance Board is to provide advisory regarding enterprise agility, future-proofing the business and sustaining the desired trajectory of profitable growth.
Distinctly Different from a Governance Board of Directors
Free from the burden of the necessary associated bureaucracy of Governance Boards of Directors, Boards of Advisors can serve in a much more dynamic, impactful and agile way. Indeed, as such, there is a rising tide of companies large and small establishing Boards of Advisors, in many cases as a complement to a governance Board of Directors.
I love Chairing Agile Advisory Boards and/or occupying the Agility Seat around the Board table.
What does an Agile Advisory Board do?
- Its function is to diversify and expand your VUCA Radar Scope (scanning over the horizon of your radar scope to spot VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity) as an early warning system of seeing potential VUCA coming on the fringes, de-risking a tendency for blind spots before you are otherwise likely to do.
- Stress-testing your Agile SWOT Analysis (analyzing your agility strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).
- Assessing the integration, alignment and attunement of your Agility Operating System (AOS) and Agile Leadership, to be translating agile strategy and agile execution into traction on your desired trajectory, wheelspin.
That's Why I Became a Certified Chair with the Advisory Board Centre
In addition to chairing peer-advisory-groups for many years, I have been involved with many governance and advisory boards as a member and a chair. I often found them to be a mixed experience of conversation-flows, which left a lot to be desired.
Yet, in an Accelerating World of Disruptive Change ...
Boards have an increasingly crucial role to play as the top line of driving conversation-flows to be future-proofing a business. With governance boards increasingly mired in bureaucracy and risk, there is a rising tide of interest in advisory boards as a complement to governance boards.
So I Went Looking for the Leading Proponent of Research Based, Best Practice Advisory Boards.
I found the Advisory Board Centre and became a USA based Certified Chair. From its home base in Australia, the Advisory Board Centre is the leading professional body globally, improving the advisory board sector through research, best practice frameworks and certifications. Already prevalent in Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and now expanding globally, it is a such a quality community of caliber chairs/advisors. I am excited to help spread the word, build the community and bring the rigor of a research based, best practice framework in the USA.