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

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)

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.