Course description
A board secretary has become a key and important person in any organization from the old mere support person they used to be. This course from Rcademy will give you the required training to become the relevant person on the board who will ensure the board sticks to corporate advancement and governance and that the board fosters a healthy relationship between management and itself.
How do you become a board secretary?
To become a board secretary, they are some basic qualifications that you will need to attain. Some of them involve having strong communication skills both in written and spoken languages because you will stay active in passing communication to board members and the chairperson, having the ability to correctly determine tasks prioritization and handle the tasks swiftly, and being familiar with organizational structures.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The Certified Board Secretary Training Course by Rcademy is a perfect fit for:
- Compliance professional
- Board secretaries who wish to increase their knowledge
- Any company and board secretary
- Corporate governance professional
- The members of the board who have the potential to fill this position
- Board and organization managers and staff that have the duties to support governance roles and corporate documentation activities
- Governance managers
- Internal audit
- Risk managers
- Managers who assess governance, such as the CFO
Outcome / Qualification etc.
After undergoing Certified Board Secretary Training Course by Rcademy, the participants will be able to:
- Develop the skills to uphold good board governance
- Understand the main duties of the company secretary
- Understand how to introduce sound governance plans and strategies in the board
- Understand the key policies, practices, and methods to host a better AGM
- Learn how to effectively support good governance in boards and foster best organizational practices
- Learn how to plan and execute board meetings
- Understand the existing regulatory reporting procedures and other key corporate events
- Assume higher offices with more responsibilities
Training Course Content
The modules covered in this course are necessary for any professional to be a certified board secretary.
Module 1: Governance and Decision-Making
- Decision cycle
- Decision types
- Governance compliance
- Accountability and decision-making
- Governance framework
- How to enforce rules
- Best practices in governance
- Governance decisions
- Governance structures
- Partners management
- Delegation and special committees
- Evaluation of decisions
- Decision-making dynamics
Module 2: Board Members
- Duty of obedience
- Duty of care
- Benchmarking from other sources
- Leap of Reason
- Boards and CEOs
- Duty of loyalty
- Accountability
- Recruiting board members
- Work plan for board members
- Consenting to board agendas
- Evaluating the performance of the board members
- Roles, duties, and responsibilities
Module 3: Shareholders and Stakeholders
- Introduction
- Defining key stakeholders and their roles
- Opportunities for improving engagement
- Why and how are boards engaging with stakeholders?
- The current landscape
- The Challenges of Stakeholders’ Engagement
Module 4: Minutes Writing
- Accountability and progress considerations
- The documented rationale for decision-making
- Continuity
- Legal protection of the records
- Formatting of the minutes
- Taking note of attendance
- Planning before-hand
- Create a note-taking outline
- Objective writing
- Including votes of individual board members
- Including opinions
- Anything that can cause scrutiny
- Creating a template
Module 5: Board Dynamics
- Steering organizational future
- Governance on boards
- Removing non-performing officers
- Hiring the Right CEO
- Nurturing growth
- Providing incentives
- Recommending new engagements
- Adding credibility
Module 6: Scope, Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities of a Board Secretary
- Ensuring effective meetings and organized minutes
- Communication and correspondence
- Maintaining effective records and administration
- Defining the roles of the board
- Liaising with the chair to create meetings
- Taking minutes
- Receiving agenda items for committee members
- Upholding compliance with regulations
- Reporting activities of the organization
Module 7: Board Committees
- Audit Committee
- Creating the ethics committee and ensuring compliance
- Risk Committee
- Nomination
- Remuneration
- Shareholders’ and stakeholders’ grievances
- Corporate Compliance
- How to create committees following bylaws
- Roles and duties
Module 8: Board Evaluation
- Oversight and failures
- Activist investors
- Evaluation requirements
- Planning and designing a better evaluation process
- Determining who to evaluate
- Prioritizing evaluation topics
- Getting the required feedback by asking necessary evaluation questions
- Members’ evaluation on different levels
- Intra-year evaluations and feedback
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