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Overview

Effective directors understand that directing the organisation is much more than managing it. They aim to maximise their contribution to the work of the board and ensure that they achieve high performance in all aspects of their role as director. This programme has been designed to help newly-appointed directors manage their transition to the board effectively, by explaining both the theory and the practice of corporate governance and by building on their existing competencies.

Training objectives

At the end of this workshop each participant will have:
  • A knowledge of the law relating to directors’ liabilities
  • A better appreciation of how to apply the principles of corporate governance to building an effective organisation
  • An insight into how to balance the different aspects of the role – governance, entrepreneurship and management
  • A clear understanding of the leadership and organisational issues involved in stakeholder management and performance delivery
  • A sharper focus on their own competencies and how they can be further enhanced in order to maximise the effectiveness of their dealings with the rest of the board as well as with the organisation as a whole

Audience

This workshop has been designed specifically for recently-appointed directors (and those shortly to be appointed to the board), although there are clear benefits to having the entire board take part.

Format

A one-day course, featuring examples and case study work to ensure an appropriate balance between the practical and the theoretical.

Special features

This workshop can be tailored to meet the needs of your particular organisation. The programme as presented here is timed to run from 9.15 to 5.30, but the timetable can be adjusted, the start and finish times can be extended or the amount of time the participants spend on examples or case studies can be reduced in order to accommodate additional or replacement topics, as required: the choice is yours!

The expert trainers

To be announced.

Course outline

  1. Directors’ liabilities and corporate governance
    • Legal basis of directors’ liabilities
        – Legal basis of the company

      • – Fiduciary duties

    2. – Due skill and care
    – Further duties
    – Who is a director?
  2. Context of directorships
      – The basis of corporate governance

    3. – Directorships in public companies
    – Listing regulations
    – Directorships in private companies
    – Governance of private companies
    – Other forms of incorporation
  3. Corporate accountability
    • Shareholder agreements
        – Composition of shareholder agreements

      • – Control through the shareholder agreement
  4. Ownership and shareholder management
      – General meetings of shareholders

    5. – Business of the general meeting
    – Communication with shareholders
  5. Relationships with venture capital
      – The VC viewpoint

    6. – Managing the VC relationship
  6. Other ownership relationships
      – The holding company board

    7. – The trust board
    – The public sector
  7. Stakeholder accountability
      – Who are the stakeholders?

    8. – Governance and strategy
  8. Wider governance debate
      – Accountability to stakeholders

    9. – Managing the stakeholder relationship
    – Corporate social responsibility
  9. Governance, entrepreneurialism and management (GEM)
    • Corporate governance in context (1)
        – Introducing the GEM model
  10. Director as governor
      – Exercising oversight

    11. – Being held accountable
    – Representing the stakeholders
  11. Director as entrepreneur
      – Risk management at the board

    12. – Innovation at the board
  12. Director as manager
      – Leading the people – style and context

    13. – Achieving results
    – Controlling the business
    – Management information
  13. Corporate governance in context (2)
      – The GEM balance at the board
  14. Director competencies and personal development
    • Director competencies
        – Director skills and knowledge

      • – Director attributes

    15. – Director motivation
  15. Effectiveness at the board
      – Logic and intuition at the board

    16. – Exercising power
    – Politics at the board
  16. Personal development planning
      – The personal development checklist

    17. – Pulling together a personal development plan