Course Outline

How corporate boards got this way (and why it matters).
- Called to order - Why are you here?
- How the corporate board model took over the world (and why it so often fails).
- The changing mandates and structures of board committees
- Your boardroom liability dangers


The Structure and Workings of the Board
- Why boards are not designed to do the job we demand of them.
- The elements of an effective board and governance structure.
- Your director duties
- Committee structures


Get ready for your first board (and first meeting)!
- How a new director should prepare.
- Pre-meeting prep best practices.
- What most directors miss at their first board meeting.
- Finding your boardroom mentor.


What the board doesn’t know
- How little boards really know about what can go wrong in the company.
- Board intelligence-gathering tools.
- Boards and the corporate whistleblower system.
- What lessons can we learn from corporate scandals?
- Case study – What the board didn’t know at Steinhoff.

  7 Hours
 

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