Course description
The Effective Director
Do you know as much as you should about the role of the director? …and of the board?
Do your fellow directors know as much as they should?
And are you all working together as effectively as you could? Are you being the best board you can be?
If you can’t say ‘yes’ to all these questions, you need to do something about it. This programme with Sam Griffiths will help you fill in the gaps and point you in the right direction.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
This workshop has been designed primarily for recently appointed directors (and those shortly to be appointed to the board), although it delivers maximum benefit when the entire board takes part.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
This workshop will give you:
- A clearer understanding of the directors’ individual and collective liabilities and responsibilities – and the penalties of getting it wrong
- A better appreciation of how to apply the principles of corporate governance to help build an effective organisation
- An insight into how to balance the different aspects of the role – governance and entrepreneurship
- An opportunity to discuss with your fellow directors what you need to do next
Training Course Content
Directors’ liabilities and corporate governance
- What is a company? What can it do?
- What is a director? Types of director
- Director’s responsibilities
- Internal governance
- Corporate administration
- Financial difficulties and investigations
- General duties
- Promoting the success of the company
- Embedding duties
- Practical steps
- Legal context
- Duty to act in good faith and with due care
- Conflicts of interest
Corporate accountability and the board
- Corporate governance – the wider debate
- Preventing failure
- Leadership
- Key drivers of effective governance
- Where does governance slip up?
- What is a board?
- Roles of the board
- The Chair-CEO relationship
- NED roles
- ED roles
- Effectiveness of the board
- Board maturity matrix
- Governance for large private companies – the Wates principles
The entrepreneurial board
- Characteristics of entrepreneurial directors
- Traditional director competencies
- Director motivation
- Balancing governance and innovation
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- The importance and application of innovation within the business
- Developing a sustainable value creation model
- Improving and driving the agenda
- Board calendar
- Directors as entrepreneurs
Next steps
- What will you do to improve your approach to governance and your role as a director?
- What will be different about your next board meeting?
- Board maturity
- What do performance and success mean to your board?
- Are there key messages / assumptions you need to challenge?
- Do you have adequate succession plans in place?
- What are your board’s future and legacy issues?
- Action plans
- Turning rhetoric into reality
- Starting conversations to develop board and senior management team insight
- Evaluating board and senior management effectiveness
- Improving information flows between the board and the senior management team
Course delivery details
A thoroughly enjoyable, very practical one-day session (9.30 – 4.30).
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