High-Performance Boards (HPB) Training Course

Why select this training course?

This course will boost your board’s performance by giving you the professional knowledge and necessary practical skills needed to create high-performing boards. The knowledge and the skills gained will help you recognize that the board of directors plays an essential part in the success of any organization. This course aims to interrogate all the deterministic issues that affect board performance and the strategic plans for board operations. By taking this course, you will be able to understand the roles and obligations of different board players, the importance of boardroom dynamics, and the importance of having good leadership on boards to foster a positive culture. Creating an effective and high-performing board will put you in a higher position to create a successful organization.

Why is a high-performance board course important?

Boards are important to organizations because they ensure that the organization operates within legal bounds and complies with the law and legislation of the country of operations. They also improve and enhance the organizational reputation by being good ambassadors. Boards are also responsible for keeping the CEO in check and ensuring the right CEO is leading the organization. They also ensure there is proper planning in the organizations.

The High-Performance Boards (HPB) Training Course by Rcademy will prepare you to be ready to develop and constitute highly effective boards for your organization by ensuring you identify and understand what the board undertakes best practices and how to drive positive and good board culture, learning how to handle a crisis in boards and ensuring successful passing of duties, and evaluating risks and mitigating them. This course is designed to secure a career in ensuring successful boards are created and avoid indulging in costly mistakes; it will give you access to tools and modern technologies that will prepare you for the market.

Who should attend?

The High-Performance Boards (HPB) Training Course by Rcademy will be ideal for:

• Officer-in-charge of the governance framework within the organization
• Board members should understand their roles
• CEOs are tasked with the responsibility of creating successful boards
• Board secretaries
• Committee chairs should steer their committees to success
• Senior management
• Executive directors

What are the course objectives?

The main objectives of The High-Performance Boards (HPB) Training Course by Rcademy is to enable participants to be able to:

• Understand the roles, duties, and responsibilities of a board
• Develop an improved board governance framework
• Know about board evaluation practices
• Learn about board instruments, procedures, and tools
• Identify the board effectiveness challenges
• Understand how to run effective board meetings
• Understand the board’s formal officers’ structure and composition
• Develop good governance, compliance, and risk plan
• Learn how to create an effective board
• Effectively make decisions
• Understand the roles and duties of stakeholders
• Learn about board functionality
• Run and participate in efficient board meetings
• Understand their roles and duties

How will this course be presented?

This training course is designed and presented by Rcademy to prepare the participants for the market while being well-equipped with the knowledge and skills to develop highly effective boards. The course will use a unique methodology that is well-tested and proven to work and also highly practical methodologies. The assignments, exercises, case studies, group discussions, and activities will ensure that you are fully ready for the market with the potential to assume high-level positions in your organization. The facilitators are experienced both in teaching and their domain fields and understand that this is a practical course that should be taught with practical bias despite the existing theoretical classes.

What are the topics covered in this course?

Module 1: The Structure and Board Operations

• Board governance framework
• Board instruments and tools
• Good governance and high-performance board
• Board meetings
• Characteristics of a high-performance board
• The structure of the boards
• The historical governance evolution

Module 2: Effectiveness Challenges of Boards

• Influence of leadership of the board and the organization
• Clarity of board’s roles vis a vis management and other shareholders/stakeholders
• Fiduciary role of boards
• Impact of informal board’s Culture
• Board’s duty is to establish the organization’s strategic plans
• Factors influencing the board’s ability to carry out its roles and responsibilities
• Effectiveness of creating the board’s framework
• Formal structure and operating procedures of the board

Module 3: The Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities of Boards

• Board composition and offices that are optional
• Roles, responsibilities, and duties of boards
• Board involvement models
• Positioning with the power hierarchy of boards
• Formal officers and board composition
• Strategic Planning and the Role of a Board
• Board members

Module 4: GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management)

• Emerging governance practices
• The governance, risk, and compliance perspective
• Enterprise risk management
• Elements of an effective compliance program
• Governance on boards
• Risk management and risk management process

Module 5: Evaluating a Board

• Top tips for a great board
• Handling failures in a board
• Crisis handling
• Approaches to evaluating aboard
• Important pillars of a board
• Methods, tools, and techniques used in evaluating boards

Module 6: Characteristics of a High-Performance Board

• Composition of a high-performing board
• Strategic plans for a board
• Effectiveness measure of a board
• Creating a successful framework
• How to create board member’s roles
• Board meetings
• Involvement models

Module 7: Immerging Issues in Boards

• What makes a great board
• Should there be an age limit?
• Compensation for committees
• Code of Ethics
• Handling incompetent directors or chairpersons

Module 8: Creating HPB

• Best-in-class boards
• Strategies for own boards
• Board links rewards for performance
• Matching risk with returns
• Managing boards
• Maintaining reputation
• Financial viability