Boardroom Best Practices from Around the World Training Course
The ongoing global disruptions, business challenges, and pandemics have not only overturned traditional business standards but also fundamentally reshaped how boards govern their organizations. Discover what directors need to know today to perform effectively. Gain access to best-practice tips and tools for meetings, information management, agendas, committees, and structure that boards worldwide use to enhance performance, reduce effort, and free up more time for high-value board activities.
This course is available as onsite live training in Kenya or online live training.Course Outline
Global Best Practice Tools for Better Boards
- Board calendars and agendas designed to boost workflow.
- Identifying what’s missing from your board agenda.
- “Bright ideas” for crafting agendas that deliver better boardwork in less time.
- The critical role of the corporate secretary in supporting effective boards.
Tackling Board information flow
- Strategies to halt the board “info flood.”
- Board info pack tips you’ll wonder how you lived without.
- How most board materials inadvertently guarantee poor oversight.
- Practical tools to improve 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 violating your board meeting bylaws (without knowing it)?
- 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 outside risks (and underestimate inside ones).
- Case study: Weak board meetings and information = Weak governance
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