Being a Director
Being A Director Course Content
Duration: full day or 2X Half days
Suitability: Existing Governing Body members, Aspiring directors
Topics covered:
- Optimally functioning Boards and what needs to be in place.
- A directors main duty.
- What does it mean for a governing body to lead ethically.
- Setting Culture and policies.
- Standards of directors conduct from the Companies Act.
- Declaration of Interest.
- Actions that may lead to liability.
- Good Corporate Governance and principles.
- (Overview of King V™ and ISO 37000 )
- Governance of Risk
- Solvency and Liquidity Tests
- Setting-up Committees and their membership.
- Financial reporting and audit requirements
- Board evaluations overview.
- Culture and Red flags
- Competitions Commission
- Case studies
Conducting in-house Board Evaluations
Conducting in-house Board Evaluations
Duration: 2 hours 30 min
Suitability: Existing Governing Body members
Topics covered:
- What needs to be in place for an optimally functioning board?
- Components and headings of a Board evaluation
- Composition
- The Chair
- Non-executive Directors (Independent and non)
- Executive directors
- Company Secretary
- Culture, Meeting management, and quality of
information
- Other
- Defining a Board culture
- 'Red Flags' to look out for and ways to manage them
- The two types of Board Evaluations
- Pros and Cons of internal and external Evaluations
- Case studies
Board Meeting Management
Board Meeting Management
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Suitability: Existing Governing Body members, Aspiring
directors, Chair and lead independent director
We all believe we run good meetings. Running a Board meeting and participating in one is a little different to a normal meeting. This program focusses on the specifics reuired at board meetings.
Topics covered:
- Meeting Roles and requirements or each member of the Governing Body.
- Behaviours expected.
- Behaviours/ problems to watch out for and how to manage
Managing Change and Resistance to Change
Managing Change and Resistance to Change
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Suitability: Existing Governing Body members, Aspiring
directors, Management.
Topics covered:
- Continuous improvement vs organisational change.
- Addressing the 'Political, Emotional and the Rational".
- The Emotional Cycle of Change.
- How to recognise each stage in an individual and team.
- How to manage individuals in each of these stages.
- Understanding resistance to change.
- Various forms that resistance may take and how to identify and manage them.
- Steps for dealing with resistance to change
Strategy Demystified
e-book contents
This e-book will guide you step-by-step to developing your strategy, as well as take you through the steps to ensure implementation. The tools selected are easy to use and have been selected from years of strategy development by the author. The Tools used are complete, in that they consider both the external and the internal environment of your business.
This is not an academic study, but a practical guide.
The book will be shipped via e-mail to your adress.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Who Does What?.
Chapter 3: Porters Five Forces Model
Chapter 4: SWOT Analysis.
Chapter 5: Segment Analysis.
Chapter 6: Product Analysis.
Chapter 7: Selecting your Strategic Imperatives.
Chapter 8: Developing your Broad Plan of Action.
Chapter 9: Tracking and Monitoring your Strategic Initiatives
Chapter 10: The Last Word.
Appendix A: Pictorial Templates of the four Tools.
Cost
ZAR 120 or alternatively USD 7.50
No shipping fees.
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