Practical toolkits & Studies

GUBERNA has developed several practical toolkits and useful reference materials that you can consult. Are you looking for the “governance essentials”? You can find them here, including topics such as remuneration, the public sector, audit committees, and more. Additionally, GUBERNA has developed two online tools: the Governance Maturity Scan and the Board Self-Evaluation Tool.

These tools allow you to assess the governance of your organization. How prepared are you for an advisory board or a board of directors? Where do you stand in terms of governance? How effective is your board of directors? Which areas require attention?

Discover our practical toolkits

In this overview, we present a collection of relevant studies and articles, as well as our toolkits, that are directly applicable to our objectives. The studies cover different topics, such as remuneration, the public sector and audit committees, and provide valuable insights for directors dealing with these different areas.

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Study on the remuneration of non-executive directors in Belgian listed companies

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Study on the remuneration of non-executive directors in Belgian non-listed companies

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Praktische toolkit - Het Remuneratiecomité en Executive Pay

In deze toolkit willen GUBERNA en Hudson een duidelijk kader schetsen voor organisaties die een remuneratiecomité opzetten of de werking ervan willen optimaliseren. Daarnaast biedt de toolkit inzicht in de hefbomen voor het realiseren van een strategisch en duurzaam loonbeleid.

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Practical tool: Independent board members in the public sector

GUBERNA has taken the initiative to develop a practical tool to help public organisations and those responsible for the selection of board members to fulfill high independence norms. As a knowledge centre for good governance GUBERNA develops tools that support organisations to make their board (more) professional.

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ACI Audit Committee Handbook: an essential handbook for board members

The ACI Audit Committee Handbook is a comprehensive handbook for and about audit committees - a unique reference publication for board members and everyone that is associated with the audit committee.

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Toolkit rekrutering en selectie van bestuurders

If you want to recruit and select non-executive or independent board members in a professional way, then the procedure to do so can be compared to that of top management in organisations. It has to do with determining organisational needs, sketching a candidate profile, comparing candidates, evaluating and eventually choosing the person who has added value for the board of directors and for the organisation.

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Board Member Handbook

According to the NBB, Belgium has more than 85.000 public limited companies ("naamloze venootschappen" in Dutch or "sociétés anonymes belges" in French)^[1]. That means just as many board of directors, equivalent to at least 255.000 board members, since the board of a public limited company is usually composed of at least three board members. With great pride GUBERNA and KPMG present the "Board Member Handbook", that is focused on the board members of public limited company.

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Our online tools

GUBERNA Board Self Evaluation Tool

The GUBERNA Board Self Evaluation Tool is a practical digital tool that allows an organisation's board to reflect on its performance and identify and implement concrete action points to improve board effectiveness.
Creating awareness and simulating a board evaluation is a first step in the continuous improvement needed for each individual director and board group.

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Governance Maturity Scan

As a manager of a young company or ambitious SME, you are looking for a balanced and workable relationship between shareholder(s), directors and management. This may raise many questions and doubts for you.

In practice, good governance does mean something other than "just applying some principles or following some rules from a code". It is just that you sometimes lack the tools or experience to make the appropriate choice out of the many codes and all possible best practice recommendations.

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