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Board Development – Creating Excellent Board

Who should attend: 

This program is specifically designed for those who already are, or are about to become, members of the board of directors of a public, private and non-profit organisations.

3 days
Course aims: 
To equip board directors with new thinking and excellent practice on all aspects of board effectiveness and governance
Course benefits: 
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the role and responsibilities of the board and its members and the key issues facing them
  • Appreciation of the important differences between board and management
  • Evaluate the role of the board in strategy development, evaluation, and progression.
  • Understand and benchmark against best practices in corporate governance.
  • Develop tested strategies for managing CEO succession and evaluating executive compensation.
  • Insight into how to Improve board and top team effectiveness and impact
  • Develop skills, attitudes and behaviours required for operating successfully at board level
  • Develop an action plan to improve your board’s performance and effectiveness
Course outline: 
  • Role of board vs. management
  • Legal responsibilities, liabilities and protections of directors and the board
  • The future context for, and issues facing directors
  • Oversight, perspective & ethical reflection:
    • – Measuring performance
    • – Monitoring, evaluating, and supporting top management
    • – Board reporting systems
    • – Codes of conduct
  • The Board and organisational strategy and policy
  • Finance update
  • Risk management:
    • – Organisational capital/asset risks
    • – Organisational capacity to implement strategy
  • Boards and stakeholder relationships: government relations, employees, customers, partners and the community,
  • Building and leveraging an effective board of directors
  • Best practices in governance
  • Principles & models
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of your board
  • Essentials of high performing boards - reputation, trust, risk & effective communication
  • The dynamics of effective board
    • – Power
    • – Annual calendar
    • – Agenda setting
    • – Conflicts of interest
  • Board recruitment, induction, succession, and planning
  • Ensuring effective committees: audit, nominating & governance, and compensation