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Effectively and efficiently integrate, activate, and motivate your board members. Learn why it matters and how to do it.

We expect board members to show up, but what we get are humans

Working with this fact, effectively and efficiently integrating, activating, and motivating your board members becomes much easier through the use of people-first principles and a purpose-focused board. This webinar will walk you through smart and practical techniques that all boards can introduce to create an engaged, empowered, and energised board.


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Why attend?

Every board has the opportunity to leverage its inherent potential by attending this webinar. Specifically, this webinar will help you:

• Develop strategies to integrate and onboard new board members to deliver value fast
• Understand how to activate board members and ensure they are working on the right things at the right time
• Learn how to tap into board members’ motivations to sustain their board participation

Learn how to build a powerful working relationship with your CEO. Understand where it can go wrong and the seven things that every board can do to get it right.

Two out of Five CEOs fail in three years:

The success of your CEO comes down to having a solid connection between the board and the CEO. But how does a board do that while avoiding the common mistakes that destroy this critical relationship?

It starts with the Board understanding their overall purpose and role within the organisation and then cascading that down through the CEO position and relationship using proactive and practical methods to ensure organizational success.

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Discover a quality engagement practice framework and 10 step facilitated processes for designing Board engagement with external stakeholders. Ideal for Chairs and Board members leading stakeholder engagement.

Partnering, alliancing and co-governance

Engagement practice continues to professionalise in our Australasian context. It has emerged from the fields of public participation and project management and is becoming increasingly valued. It integrates with aligned fields including communications, public relations, marketing, planning and evaluation. Due to significant drivers of change over recent years, many organisations are facing an increasing need to collaborate. This includes partnering, alliancing and co-governance approaches. Having a quality engagement approach produces clear benefits for organisations and communities. It is one of the best risk management mitigations you can apply to both external and internal organisational engagement. 

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An annual operating plan is a prized document

It's the blueprint for building your organisation in any given year. You wouldn’t build a house without architectural drawings. Unfortunately, many SME/NFP CEO’s run their organisation's with only a sketch of what they are building.

This webinar is aimed at CEOs of commercial and not for profit organisations with revenues between $2M and $40M and a functioning management/leadership team (i.e. 3+ managers) who don’t have a strong track record of strategic and operational planning

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Learn how reporting can slowly destroy an organisation or conversely, keep it focused and positioned for the future. 

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.

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Learn why the preparation of board minutes is a vital component of directors’ responsibilities, and what good minutes contain. 

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Learn why a high-performance board starts with answering the question ‘what does great look like?’; and how the four pillars of board effectiveness help to create and sustain your board’s high-performance ambitions.

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Good governance is an active choice

It starts with us – as individual board members and as a board – to make the time and have the intention to create a system that supports the board and board members towards governance excellence. Effectively shaping the four interdependent pillars of board effectiveness :
1) People,
2) Information Architecture,
3) Structures and Processes,
4) Group Dynamics and Board Culture ,
will help you to achieve and sustain board effectiveness.

What you'll learn;

If you’re ready to take action towards building an effective board, this webinar will help you to:

• Understand what a high performing board is.
• Discover how to take meaningful action towards building a high performing board.
• Learn how the four pillars of board effectiveness help to create and sustain board effectiveness.
• Hear real world case studies on how to apply the four pillars of board effectiveness.

Privately owned business board members experience both unique challenges and stimulating rewards. Our expert panel will discuss these in depth, sharing first hand insights and war stories.

It’s a far more human experience as you navigate family dynamics, founder personality and succession conversations. Sometimes decisions are made for reasons that are not commercial in nature. These organisations often have a stronger values base and deeper connection with their community. Board members need to be more agile and pragmatic in their approach. The rewards are great: decisions can be implemented quickly and success can be experienced first hand.

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The role of the director is evolving. Are you?

The concept of the 'Future Director' is a destination for all directors – regardless of age or tenure, aspiring or experienced – to become the relevant modern board members the world needs now, as well as into the future. They are fit for purpose, which at a basic level means being a leader who is self-aware and highly effective at creating the conditions for good decision-making and stewardship.

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Learn about 2021’s Top Five Governance Risks and Boards Top Tips for addressing them. Gain insight into how continuous Board and director review and development (Evaluation) is the number one tip for building your board's capabilities for being effective