Course description
This course will boost your board’s performance by giving you the professional knowledge and necessary practical skills needed to create high-performing boards. The knowledge and the skills gained will help you recognize that the board of directors plays an essential part in the success of any organization. This course aims to interrogate all the deterministic issues that affect board performance and the strategic plans for board operations. By taking this course, you will be able to understand the roles and obligations of different board players, the importance of boardroom dynamics, and the importance of having good leadership on boards to foster a positive culture. Creating an effective and high-performing board will put you in a higher position to create a successful organization.
Why is a high-performance board course important?
The course is important for you to identify the best practices in boards and how to develop a good culture in boards. It is also important for professionals to take this course to learn how to manage disputes inside boards in fast and effective ways, identify and evaluate risks to maximize opportunities while ensuring the board is strategic and ensure that the organization is successful through the board.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
The High-Performance Boards (HPB) Training Course by Rcademy will be ideal for:
- Officer-in-charge of the governance framework within the organization
- Board members should understand their roles
- CEOs are tasked with the responsibility of creating successful boards
- Board secretaries
- Committee chairs should steer their committees to success
- Senior management
- Executive directors
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The main objectives of The High-Performance Boards (HPB) Training Course by Rcademy is to enable participants to be able to:
- Understand the roles, duties, and responsibilities of a board
- Develop an improved board governance framework
- Know about board evaluation practices
- Learn about board instruments, procedures, and tools
- Identify the board effectiveness challenges
- Understand how to run effective board meetings
- Understand the board’s formal officers’ structure and composition
- Develop good governance, compliance, and risk plan
- Learn how to create an effective board
- Effectively make decisions
- Understand the roles and duties of stakeholders
- Learn about board functionality
- Run and participate in efficient board meetings
- Understand their roles and duties
Training Course Content
Module 1: The Structure and Board Operations
- Board governance framework
- Board instruments and tools
- Good governance and high-performance board
- Board meetings
- Characteristics of a high-performance board
- The structure of the boards
- The historical governance evolution
Module 2: Effectiveness Challenges of Boards
- Influence of leadership of the board and the organization
- Clarity of board’s roles vis a vis management and other shareholders/stakeholders
- Fiduciary role of boards
- Impact of informal board’s Culture
- Board’s duty is to establish the organization’s strategic plans
- Factors influencing the board’s ability to carry out its roles and responsibilities
- Effectiveness of creating the board’s framework
- Formal structure and operating procedures of the board
Module 3: The Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities of Boards
- Board composition and offices that are optional
- Roles, responsibilities, and duties of boards
- Board involvement models
- Positioning with the power hierarchy of boards
- Formal officers and board composition
- Strategic Planning and the Role of a Board
- Board members
Module 4: GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management)
- Emerging governance practices
- The governance, risk, and compliance perspective
- Enterprise risk management
- Elements of an effective compliance program
- Governance on boards
- Risk management and risk management process
Module 5: Evaluating a Board
- Top tips for a great board
- Handling failures in a board
- Crisis handling
- Approaches to evaluating aboard
- Important pillars of a board
- Methods, tools, and techniques used in evaluating boards
Module 6: Characteristics of a High-Performance Board
- Composition of a high-performing board
- Strategic plans for a board
- Effectiveness measure of a board
- Creating a successful framework
- How to create board member’s roles
- Board meetings
- Involvement models
Module 7: Immerging Issues in Boards
- What makes a great board
- Should there be an age limit?
- Compensation for committees
- Code of Ethics
- Handling incompetent directors or chairpersons
Module 8: Creating HPB
- Best-in-class boards
- Strategies for own boards
- Board links rewards for performance
- Matching risk with returns
- Managing boards
- Maintaining reputation
- Financial viability
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