Board development

Many people at board level bring with them considerable knowledge and skills but their individual and group capabilities often let them down.

Duration

  • Four nonconsecutive days.

Programme structure

Board development is a four-day programme, delivered on nonconsecutive days. Each day comprises a highly facilitated and participative workshop. Prior to the workshop, a benchmarking process establishes the board 'starting position' via a series of one-to-one interviews and personality profiling.

Includes personality profile - all delegates receive an 'Insights' personality profile, to help them better understand themselves and how they interact with others.

Intended audience

Board development is intended for board-level executives. The programme is best provided for up to five people from the same board team.

Effective boards rarely 'just happen': more often they spend time developing capabilities as individuals rather than as a group. Time spent developing together will enable them to achieve outstanding levels of business and personal performance.             

Programme content

Base camp - a one-day executive workshop

  • A highly facilitated and participative workshop that establishes the foundation stones for development
  • The right environment
  • Commonly understood purpose
  • Mutual accountability
  • Values alignment
  • Common approach

Breakthrough change - a one-day executive workshop

  • Moving beyond the established group norms and creating the breakthrough thinking that leads to high performance.
  • Paradigms
  • Exploring and testing the 'norms'
  • Challenge and conflict
  • Breakthrough change

Challenging progress - one day executive workshop

Stripping away the protection of office norms to help board members experience self and group discovery, exploring how they work individually and together when confronted with a real challenge.

  • Insights reports
  • Seeing ourselves as others do
  • Effective teaming at board level
  • Working well together under pressure
  • Learning fast as a group

Innovation forum - a one-day executive workshop

Developmental workshop, addressing real business issues with innovative techniques.

  • Innovation
  • Real innovation
  • Decision making
  • Priority setting
  • Moving to action