It’s helpful for a board to review itself annually, either through questionnaires or individual interviews. The latter can be done by the chair (who themselves should be interviewed by another board member) or by pairings of board members, asking each other a set of questions. Senior staff should also be involved in the process.
By way of example, the former chair of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) Bernard Donoghue OBE prepared the following list of questions for individual interviews with his board members: