Evaluating Your CEO’s Performance

If a core responsibility of a bank board of directors is to hire a competent CEO to run the organization, shouldn’t it also review that individual’s performance? In Bank Director’s 2021 Governance Best Practices Survey, 79% of responding board members said their CEOs’ performance was reviewed annually. However, 15% said their CEOs were not reviewed regularly, and 7% said the performance of their CEOs had been assessed in the past but not every year. The practice is even less prevalent at banks with $500 million in assets or less, where just 56% of the survey respondents said their CEOs were...