BoardPro Podcasts

This webinar will illuminate the intricate landscape of conflicts of interest within the boardroom. Navigating conflicts effectively is not just a skill; it's a necessity for maintaining integrity, fostering trust, and ensuring sustainable organizational success.

Through this webinar, our aim is to provide you with actionable takeaways that can be immediately applied in your boardroom responsibilities. Explore the many case studies and “in the trenches” stories that illustrate how difficult situations have been handled, the various nuances of conflicting interests, and what happens if this is not professionally and competently handled.

This course is designed especially for:

• Directors, including executives-directors, nominee directors and shareholding directors
• CEOs who aspire to great governance from the board they have, rather than the board a textbook might recommend
• Company secretaries who want to add value and support their directors

Conflict doesn’t have to divide your board—it can be the spark that drives innovation. Discover practical strategies, real-world case studies and proven models for transforming disagreement into creative solutions.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how the friction of conflict can fuel groundbreaking ideas and better board decisions. Using a model of participatory decision-making, we’ll unpack the different phases that are needed to turn disagreements into innovation. You’ll hear inspiring examples from diverse fields and gain actionable tips. 

Whether your challenges involve budgets, strategy or team dynamics, this session will equip you with tools to embrace conflict, navigate tough discussions, and emerge with creative solutions that align with your mission and values.

Cultivating an effective boardroom culture is essential for building trust, creating a psychologically safe environment, and enabling the board to deliver excellence for the organisation. Creating an effective boardroom culture is no longer a ‘nice to do’, but a requirement for meeting work health and safety obligations and duty of care.

Board culture challenges come in many forms, and the impact can be devastating.

• misalignment of purpose and desired outcomes
• passion for purpose vs strategic priorities
• control vs inclusion
• inexperience vs skills and capabilities
• bias and assumption vs open-mindedness,
• and failure to uphold and role model the organisation’s culture and values.

The impact of your board culture, good or bad, will impact your board members and flow through the organisation. It will show up positively or negatively in trust, wellbeing, confidence, alignment, engagement, and effort.

Don’t miss this session where nothing is off limits. Culture expert, Georgia Henry, will share insights from her experience and strategies for overcoming culture challenges in the boardroom. 

Unlock the potential of AI in governance with this insightful webinar, designed to help directors and executives integrate AI into their decision-making processes.

Key points:

• Learn how to leverage AI as a governance co-pilot to tackle boardroom challenges and improve strategic decisions.
  
  
• Move beyond AI's theoretical potential to actionable steps that can be applied in real-world governance scenarios.
  
  
• Gain fresh perspectives for more informed decision-making through AI integration.
  
  
• Receive the building blocks and tools to embed AI into daily governance processes, keeping your board ahead of industry trends.
  
  
• Explore governance themes and adopt essential AI tools to boost overall boardroom effectiveness.

Is your Board prepared for the next CEO appraisal? Join us in a dynamic webinar offering invaluable insights on conducting effective CEO reviews, setting KPIs, and driving performance.

This session will equip you with the tools to conduct a powerful and constructive CEO review. Learn to tackle tough questions, establish meaningful KPIs, align them with strategic priorities, and link performance to incentive payments.

• Prepare for challenging conversations and set a robust framework for the next 12 months.
• Ensure your CEO appraisal is not just a formality but a driving force for organisational success.

Learn how to run a lower stress process to produce an engaging annual operating plan.
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 small to medium businesses or non-profit 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 $1M 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. 

Join us for our enlightening webinar, 'How to think differently about whole of business governance’, where Dr Dean Blomson and our expert panel will be guiding us through an exploration of business governance design.

This webinar is designed to explore governance beyond the confines of the boardroom, into and across the business entity (whether for-profit or not-for-profit; whether listed or public). If boards are to be effective in their governance, then the systems, processes, and structures of the business itself need to be properly designed and reliably managed. Board systems don’t or shouldn’t exist in a parallel universe from the organisation itself (although often it seems like they do). 

Dean, supported by the panel, will delve into why it is crucial for any organisation to develop a business-wide governance model that doesn’t necessarily start with the board and its requirements but ultimately supports these effectively and efficiently. Dean will touch on his research into enterprise governance design, plus his prior BoardPro presentation from 5 September (“Bespoke governance”: How to determine if your governance is fit-for-purpose). 

Learn the fine art of CEO reporting to the board in four simple steps in 45 minutes from industry and governance experts.
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. 

The art of collaborative leadership can enhance relationships and transform boardroom decision-making. This webinar will dive into the key components of collaboration and offer practical tips for implementation.

Leadership styles profoundly impact the effectiveness of boards and leadership teams. While autocratic leadership may deliver quick results, it’s the more challenging art of collaborative leadership that fosters lasting success. Contrary to popular belief, collaborative leadership is not as congenial as you may think. In fact, it involves healthy doses of conflict, feedback and accountability. 

This webinar will unpack the core components of collaborative leadership and provide pragmatic strategies for boards and leadership teams to make smarter decisions, increase engagement, encourage innovation, and manage power dynamics effectively.