Boardroom Best Practices from Around the World Training Course
Global turmoil, business disruptions and pandemics have not only turned business standards upside down, but forcibly reshaped how boards govern those organizations. Here is what directors must know today to be effective. Best-practice tips and tools (meetings, info, agendas, committees, structure, etc.) that boards around the world use to do a better job, with less effort, leaving more time for high-value boardwork.
This course is available as onsite live training in Slovenia or online live training.Course Outline
Global Best Practice Tools for Better Boards
- Board calendars and agendas that boost workflow.
- What’s missing from your board agenda?
- “Bright ideas” for agendas that deliver better boardwork in less time.
- How the corporate secretary is crucial for good boards.
Tackling Board information flow
- How to halt the board “info flood.”
- Board info pack tips you’ll wonder how you lived without.
- How most board materials guarantee poor oversight.
- Try these tools to improve board presentations.
- Case study – Putting a board portal to work
Online Board meetings and governance
- Lessons learned from two years of remote boards.
- Are you violating your board meeting bylaws (without knowing it)?
- 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 role in shaping company risk strategy.
- Why boards overestimate outside risks (and underestimate inside ones).
- Case study – Weak board meetings and information = Weak governance
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