Boardroom Best Practices from Around the World Training Course
Global upheavals, business disruptions, and pandemics have not only upended standard business practices but have also forcibly reshaped how boards govern their organizations. Discover what directors need to know today to remain effective. Gain access to best-practice tips and tools—covering meetings, information management, agendas, committees, structure, and more—that boards around the world use to perform better, with less effort, thereby freeing up more time for high-value boardwork.
This course is available as onsite live training in Botswana or online live training.Course Outline
Global Best Practice Tools for Better Boards
- Board calendars and agendas that enhance workflow.
- Identifying what is missing from your board agenda.
- Innovative ideas for agendas that deliver superior boardwork in less time.
- Understanding why the corporate secretary is pivotal to successful boards.
Managing Board Information Flow
- Strategies to stop the board ‘information flood.’
- Tips for board info packs that you will wonder how you ever managed without.
- Why most board materials inadvertently lead to poor oversight.
- Try these tools to enhance board presentations.
- Case study – Putting a board portal to work
Online Board Meetings and Governance
- Lessons learned from two years of remote boards.
- Are you inadvertently violating your board meeting bylaws?
- How online governance is reinventing board oversight – best practices.
- Chairing virtual board meetings.
Corporate Controls, Risk, and the Board
- Making financial controls ‘board friendly.’
- Smart use of digital information ‘dashboards.’
- The board’s role in shaping company risk strategy.
- Why boards overestimate external risks and underestimate internal ones.
- Case study – Weak board meetings and information lead to Weak governance
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