Course description
Non-Executive Directors' Development Programme
The Non-Executive Directors Development Programme is an intensive three-day programme, which has been developed to support and provide leaders with the knowledge and skills to be a high performing Non-Executive Director, preparing them for the demands and challenges of the role.
This fast track, well-structured and intensive programme provides an outstanding personal development opportunity. The programme provides a detailed understanding and up-to-date knowledge of the role of the Non-Executive Director and the board, leadership, corporate strategy, finance and crucially, organisational governance. It offers the maximum personal and business benefit from a minimum investment.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Designed for those with a minimum three years’ senior management experience, it provides the core elements for aspiring, newly-appointed and seasoned Non-Executive Directors looking to improve their effectiveness at board level.
This course is for you if you want to:
- Learn the responsibilities of a Non-Executive Director
- Learn how to contribute to the strategic direction of the company
- Build crucial commercial, strategic and leadership skills and knowledge
- Develop key skills to better influence the board and deliver more effective outcomes
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this programme, participants will:
- Have gained detailed knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the role and responsibilities of a Non-Executive Director including legal obligations, personal liabilities and expected duties and how these relate to your role
- Be able to contribute to the strategic direction of the company
- Have built crucial commercial, strategic and leadership skills and knowledge
- Have improved confidence and effectiveness to operate at board level
- Gain knowledge of the latest boardroom best practice and principles
- Develop the personal key skills to better influence the board and deliver more effective outcomes
- Understand the importance of informed decision making, viewing challenges more objectively and delivering better results
Training Course Content
Session 1
The Role of the Non-Executive Director and the Board
Key themes include:
- Director duties as defined in the Companies Act 2006
- Sector-specific regulation
- Corporate and ethical governance
- ESG Frameworks, Regulation, Measurement and Reporting
- Risk management in the current climate
- Challenge and support in the boardroom and managing wider stakeholders
- Identifying opportunities across all sectors to match skills and aspirations
- Ongoing legislative changes
- Recent corporate successes and failure
Session 2
Finance for Non-Executive Directors
Key themes include:
- Key financial reports and metrics of a business – cash flow, balance sheet, and profit and loss/income statements
- Interpreting the financial information from a non-financial perspective
- Accounting principles and standards
- Understanding the annual accounts ‘sign-off’ process
- Financial KPIs
- Financial stakeholders
- Recognising the signs of a failing company
Session 3
The Non-Executives Director’s Role in Leadership and Strategy
Key themes include:
- Challenging and influencing the culture in the board
- 21st century leadership practices
- Diversity within the board and the organisation and avoiding bias
- Improving the effectiveness of stakeholders
- Key differences between strategic and operational thinking
- Strategic business planning concepts and theory
- Horizon scanning – staying ahead and avoiding failure
- Influencing, implementing and monitoring change
- Create a positive and pro-active agenda through effective, responsible, and sustainable strategy deployment
Course delivery details
Your Delivery Options
Virtual Classroom
We strive to create a positive and lasting impact through the delivery of our courses, which is why all our sessions are structured around taught theory, interactivity and shared experiences from the real world. Our online training courses are designed to create the optimum learning experience for the virtual environment. Our training is highly interactive; our tutors make regular use of whiteboard, annotate, polls and other types of interactive software to enhance the learning experience.
In House Team Training
Our in-house service delivers tailored training solutions to assist businesses in achieving their goals. Unlike our open courses, our in-house offering provides completely customisable content that is built with your guidance to facilitate anything from large transformational projects to individual learner journeys.
Our dedicated bespoke account management team will work with you to ensure that the solution you and your business choose allows for the optimal learning experience.
Your In-House Training Options
- Off-the-shelf, existing programmes delivered privately for you and your team
- Part-tailored solutions using various elements of our existing programmes to create a unique programme aligned to your organisational needs
- Bespoke built programmes, created and designed entirely to meet your specific requirements and customised to your business’ goals
Why choose In Professional Development
Delivered training to over 10,000 organisations
92% of delegates rate our courses as 5 star
Created over 2,500 CMI registrations
Reviews
Average rating 5
Just finished the non-executive directors course this past week. Very informative. Filled in some of the gaps required for functional excellence in this role. I would recommend ...
A great two days where I learnt a lot and feel ready to take on new challenges as a NED. The content was well presented and relevant.
Expenses
Course Price
- Virtual Classroom: £1,500 +VAT
- In-House Training: Price on Enquiry
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In Professional Development
In Professional Development are a professional training provider offering a wide range of professional development courses, on an accredited or non-accredited basis. Our course portfolio ranges from 1 to 5-day courses. We work with a range of partners to ensure...
I attended the Non-Executive Director Development Programme and I have to say I was impressed. The training was given in such a conversational style that we (our small cohort of...