Boardroom Best Practices from Around the World Training Course
Recent global upheavals, business interruptions, and pandemics have not only overturned traditional business standards but have also forcibly reshaped how boards govern their organizations. Discover what directors need to know today to be truly effective. Explore best-practice tips and tools—covering meetings, information management, agendas, committees, and structure—that boards worldwide are using to improve performance with less effort, leaving more time for high-value boardwork.
This course is available as onsite live training in Nigeria or online live training.Course Outline
Global Best Practice Tools for Better Boards
- Board calendars and agendas designed to enhance workflow.
- Identifying what is missing from your board agenda.
- 'Bright ideas' for agendas that deliver better board outcomes in less time.
- The critical role of the corporate secretary in maintaining good boards.
Managing Board Information Flow
- How to stop the board 'information flood.'
- Board information pack tips that you will wonder how you managed without.
- Why most board materials lead to poor oversight.
- Tools to improve board presentations.
- Case study: Putting a board portal into action.
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 tend to overestimate external risks while underestimating internal ones.
- Case study: Weak board meetings and information lead to weak governance.
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