The Highly Effective Director: 7 key lessons to help you excel in the boardroom

Tools and techniques to help existing, new, future directors escape the management trap and excel in the boardroom.

Full day

Overview

Being a director is a job in its own right and very different from being a manager. The Highly Effective Director is an intensive, one-day course providing tools and techniques to help existing, new, future directors escape the management trap and excel in the boardroom.

Participants will learn a host of tools and techniques for working on the business rather than in it - a must for any entrepreneur, family-business member, unit head or senior manager, seeking to advance or simply think like a CEO.

Each 7 'lessons' will be structured around a central framework:

Accountability – our results (Stakeholder relations / managing expectations / getting results)
Foresight – our future (Corporate Culture / Vision, Mission and Values / mood of the times)
Strategy – our route map (Revolution / Options / Fit)
Management – our action plan (Securing resources / Planning and Action / Monitoring and Control)
Leadership
Learning
The Core – our corporate DNA (our spirit – our soul)

What you'll learn

Practical tools for the professional director, including:

A central framework for focusing and organising your activity as a director
How to define the DNA of the business
Techniques for defining a clear, compelling organisational purpose
How to think on three time-horizons
The process for addressing strategic challenges to the business
How to delegate and gain broad-based action
How to secure strategic advantage and long-term prosperity
How to plan – and make it stick.
Three core principles for inspirational leadership
The value of building a learning organisation.

Making the shift:

Dealing with uncertainty
Gaining consensus while preserving challenge
Daring to be different – and managing the risk
How to preserve courage and innovation.

Common pitfalls and how to address them:

How to escape the management trap
Finding time to think
Managing risk
Balancing the conflict of stakeholder expectations
Dealing with uncertainty.

Who is it for?

Anyone about to become a director for the first time
Anyone joining a new board
Managers preparing for their next role
Senior leaders in family businesses
Entrepreneurs expanding their business
Senior managers who need to think like their CEO.

Your facilitator

Ian Waddelow

Ian is an independent consultant, speaker and educator specialising in strategic planning, corporate governance and international marketing. He works with directors, boards and organisations ranging from SMEs to blue-chip multinationals such as AMEC, Warner Home Video, Republic National Bank of New York, RBS/NatWest, Wrigleys and The BBC generating over $8bn in incremental growth.

In this course he will share his core principles he applies and provide you with the knowledge and skills to secure more prosperity for your own organization.

Feedback

Excellent. As a newly appointed Director I feel this has given me the confidence to take on my new role with a clear vision of what is expected of me and how I can make an impact.

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