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Corporate Governance

Building Executive Effectiveness

Duration: 2 days

Introduction

Globally, Corporate Governance has a tremendous impact on businesses. Today's economic environment is very different to the way it was a few years ago and sound corporate governance is becoming the single most important success factor.

This programme equips participants with understanding of the principles and practices - local and global - that underpin the individual and collective roles and responsibilities of directors for the effective performance of the boards on which they serve.

The overall purpose of this programme is to achieve board effectiveness through sound governance aligned to strategic leadership for sustainable performance that requires:

  • building strong boards

  • ensuring optimal board composition

  • strategic leadership competence of directors

Course outline

THEME 1 -Conceptual Framework

  • Definitions, principles, fundamentals

  • Historical context

  • Models

  • Stakeholder and shareowner governance

  • Governance and ownership structures

THEME 2 - Governance Codes and charters

  • King 3 Code

  • Self-regulation or enforced compliance

  • From compliance to performance

  • Companies Act and fiduciary duties

THEME 3 - Strategic role of the board

  • Strategic leadership

  • Inclusive approach

  • Corporate citizenship

  • Composition, role and performance of the board

THEME 4 -Programme integration

  • Integration governance, strategy and leadership

  • Best practice application

  • Board charter

The program is presented by an experienced facilitator who is also a lecturer, an executive coach, consultant and writer in leadership, strategy, governance and social entrepreneurship. He has presented executive workshops to leading corporations in South Africa and abroad.

In addition to his vast experience, he is passionate about leadership in a living systems context. His research interest is the application of complexity and chaos theory to leadership and strategy.

What our clients say:

Just a short note about our recent course on Corporate governance. The course was excellent and enlightened all the directors to their responsibilities as being a director. The course was very well run by the facilitator and he had a very good knowledge of the subject and kept the course interesting for all attending. We achieved all that we wanted and I would suggest that all board of small to medium companies should take this course. The agricultural sector is especially ignorant of the new responsibilities of directors. We will follow this up with a workshop to ensure we initiate many of the new ideas that came out during the course. All my directors have been very positive about the course, a great success . Thank you very much.

Regards 

Allen - CEO

 
 
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