BoardPro Podcasts

November 14th

Could looking at risk through a more strategic lens not only improve engagement, but also be the missing piece of the jigsaw that enables strategy execution? This webinar will provide key tips on how to improve engagement around risk as well as making your risk analysis more strategic. We will also look at the impact chat GPT, and how it can be used to propel risk analysis.

In this webinar you will learn about the impacts of technology on business models, and how it is not necessarily the technology that drives change or creates risk, but the business model.

We will look how risk and strategy are defined, and how by looking at risk through a more strategic lens helps with strategy execution. We will draw on lessons from industries that have been disrupted by technology to predict the impacts of AI. We will look at tools to help make your risk analysis more strategic, as well as looking at how Chat GPT can used be propel your risk analysis. We will finish by providing an overview of Flipview as a platform that helps bridge the gap between risk and strategy.

Whilst culture has become an essential focus for senior executives, middle managers and people leaders of all kinds, it is still not well understood. If you want to change your culture, you need to change the rules of belonging.

Key Takeaways

Culture is one of the most widely discussed and poorly understood concepts in organisational life. This webinar will:

• Clarify what culture is and isn’t (it isn’t employee engagement)
• Provide meaningful shared language for future discussions
• Allow leaders to clearly see the culture of any group
• Simplify the way to take action on shifting culture

Reporting should never be about activity but rather about questions and strategic insights

Late reporting can kill the CEO either through director frustration and getting little or too much information, or the organisation facing threats to its future that are ignored through late reporting of trends, issues, or strategic implications.

Key Takeaways

Learn how can you can maximise your reporting impacts through;

• Ensuring the board receive your material in a timely manner
• Help focus the board through the design of your executive reports
• What directors need to know versus what they want to know
• The two questions that must be answered in any board report
• The two reporting issues that kill a CEO

This webinar is aimed at CEO's and executives who wish to gain more effectiveness and efficiency with their board reporting.

The governance landscape has incredible heterogeneity, from school boards through to listed companies. This webinar will identify the categories of organisations that pay generous director fees to their board members.

Extreme Inequality   

There are about half a million governing bodies in Australia, many of which are small and local. Board members contribute a meaningful portion of the total volunteering effort across the country. Less than 10% of board members are paid. Within the organisations that pay their directors, there are several clusters of well-paid roles. These will be identified during the webinar, along with the attributes of prospective directors for these roles

Develop a CEO Report structure that works for your SME or Nonprofit

Once targets have been clearly defined, the CEO should be able to produce a report that clearly and easily gives the board the information they need. As a rule, the first two pages should be enough for board members to gather a broad understanding of the position of the business, without having to read any further.