iAbacus for trustees
iAbacus for trustees
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As a trustee, you are charged with providing strong governance and strategic oversight. iAbacus transforms this responsibility from a fragmented paperwork exercise into a clear, collaborative, and evidence-based framework, helping you and your board to ensure robust accountability and drive tangible improvement across every academy.
As a trustee, you are charged with providing strong governance and strategic oversight. iAbacus transforms this responsibility from a fragmented paperwork exercise into a clear, collaborative, and evidence-based framework, helping you and your board to ensure robust accountability and drive tangible improvement across every academy.
Evaluate and improve the board’s effectiveness
Evaluate and improve the board’s effectiveness
Use iAbacus for board self-evaluation by mapping governance frameworks, like the NGA's 21 questions, onto a bespoke abacus. This allows trustees to collate ratings and comments, creating a transparent view of the board's strengths and weaknesses and developing an actionable plan to address gaps in skills, compliance, or diversity.
Oversee and compare schools’ evaluations
Oversee and compare schools’ evaluations
Move beyond lengthy reports with a dynamic, at-a-glance view of trust-wide performance. Use the 'Overlay' and 'Stack' features to compare evaluations from each school, visually highlighting differences in performance, identifying best practice to replicate, and spotting recurring challenges that require strategic intervention from the board.
Reflect on your personal contribution
Reflect on your personal contribution
Use a personal abacus to review your own performance against the skills required of an effective trustee, such as financial scrutiny, risk management, or stakeholder engagement. By tracking your growth over time, you can ensure you remain an active, well-informed, and impactful member of the board, modelling a culture of reflective practice.
Benefits for trustees:
Benefits for trustees:
Structure board self-evaluation against recognised governance standards.
Ensure strategic accountability with clear, evidence-based oversight.
Gain trust-wide insight by comparing performance across multiple schools.
Make informed decisions on strategy and resource allocation.
Strengthen governance by fostering a culture of reflective practice.
Model good practice by demonstrating a commitment to improvement.
See how iAbacus can transform your board's effectiveness and provide the strategic oversight you need. Book a personal demo to explore how our platform aligns with governance frameworks, or start a free trial to experience a more transparent and evidence-based approach to trust leadership.
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