Governance Training
We teach and inspire good governance
Our experts deliver governance training programs designed with your team in mind. We offer training in a wide range of topics, including roles and responsibilities, monitoring, policy development, and chairing. Our fun, interactive programs engage and teach your audience about the value of governance change.
Topics
Role of the Board
Based on STRIVE!’s best-seller, The Imperfect Board Member, this workshop highlights governance excellence. No matter what issue you are facing as a board, it is best that everyone is on the same page. This module, somewhat customized for the specific needs of individual boards, will ensure everyone understands the role of the board vs. the role of the staff before engaging in any change or implementation. You will also delve deeper into the gold found in the Secret Formula for Organizational Effectiveness™ and come out with a clear picture of how your board can be both smart and healthy.
Working as a Governing Board through Policies
Take the time to pull back and make sure you are working with and within your policies and reflect on why you are doing what you are doing. You will come away having a clearer understanding of the types of policies, what their ultimate purpose is, and how extremely useful and strategic a complete set of board policies can be to the organization and the directors.
Making the Most of Board Meetings
Learn how to: create agendas that add value, use time to draw out the highest potential from your board members, monitor performance, and ensure your board is also vision focussed and strategic.
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Championship Chairing
Facilitate board meetings that: end in a clear decision as an outcome, manage domineering board members who like to pontificate, draw out the silent ‘you never know what they're thinking’ types, redirect a CEO who seems to be leading the meeting, and make effective use of a CEO’s talents.
The Board as Supervisor to the Senior Manager
This module is designed to explore the pivotal role between the board and the CEO.
Directing the Senior Manager
Discuss and explore: how to avoid problems when giving direction to the senior staff person, holding in-camera sessions and maintaining the trust of your senior staff person..
Evaluating the Senior Manager
Get great tips for developing a formal, documented performance evaluation and development plan.
The Power of Policy
Policy setting is an on-going activity of the board. Starting with an overview of legislation, by-laws, and governing policy, your board will have opportunity to move into practical policy development and learn best practices that can help boards maintain, monitor, and develop new policies in a manner that best serves their organization.
Foundations of Governance
Owners vs. Customers
Get some great ideas for seeking owner input, communicating policies to owners/stakeholders and what to do with board member opinions after decisions are made.
Monitoring Operations
Learn how a board fulfills its due diligence responsibilities. Explore the most important risk, policy, and performance measures to monitor without micromanaging or being deluged with information.
Effective Meetings
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Board Meeting Audit
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Making Board Meetings Work
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Charging up Committees - Learn the purpose of the Executive Committee and how you can avoid a ‘we’ vs. ‘they’ dynamic with the rest of the board. Eliminate ambiguity, clarify purpose, and dispell myths about committees.
Director Liability
Mitigate the risk and understand the responsibility
Risk Assessment & Management
More and more board are engaging in a risk identification process as a means of ensuring the biggest risks in the organization are appropriately addressed. Drawing on the diversity of experience amongst board and senior staff members, the objective of this session is to complete a preliminary risk size-up (scope, consequences, risk treatment, etc) of the most concerning risks.
Getting New Board Members on Board
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Director Succession/Succession Planning - Gain tips for navigating director succession gracefully, getting new board members that should be on a board, and encouraging the deadwood to move on.
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Director Orientation
Other Topics
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Annual General Meetings
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Difficult Conversations
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Board Officer Roles
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Joy to the Board
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Finance