Spotify’s big drawcard Joe Rogan said some stuff. Stupid stuff. And Spotify got heat because Joe’s values butted against their publicly stated ones. So what’s a board to do? Today, FDI’s Paul yacks with good friend Matt Fullbrook of Fullbrook Board Effectiveness, about what things a board could do better in a crisis. 

We cover:

• How a Future Director should respond to an ethical dilemma
• Why knee-jerk reactions are wrong and current crisis meetings are broken
• Are day-to-day crises even in the board’s purview?
• Mutual vulnerability between management and their board, and the board’s responsibility to create this
• The need to be imaginative when developing a Risk Register

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Today is another joyful forum with Matt Fullbrook of Fullbrook Board Effectiveness and FDI’s Paul Smith. This time, the question’s squarely on what sort of director is the director the future needs? Let’s hear Matt dimensionalise what being a Future Director means to him.

We explore:

• A strong definition of corporate governance (and by extension, good governance)
• The 4 villains to good decision-making
• The upside of being untethered to orthodoxy, naive in a sense
• Making a fit-for-purpose board, rather than a one-size-fits-all board
• How an overboarder could flip a boardroom for the better
• What a board full of Matt Fullbrooks would look like

Resources:

‘Decisive’ by Chip & Dan Heath 

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A weird cultural thing’s emerged through the history and formality of boardrooms, which has made it a space that makes directors lonely. Vulnerability is seen as a weakness because comradery is weak. Today, FDI’s Paul chats with Matt Fullbrook of Fullbrook Board Effectiveness - on how what boards and directors can do to click. Obnoxious wisdom awaits.

We discuss:

• Why boards breed loneliness, and whether this is just a human problem
• How boards can make people comfortable by switching up rigid ways of doing things
• What individual board directors can do to feel less lonely
• The power of being consciously obnoxious

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Future Directors Podcast #69

Governing for Burnout Series

Part 3 - How to create a workplace culture that limits staff burnout

When people are working weekends and not taking leave, it’s clear mental ill health is a-brewing. How do you ensure it doesn’t get to that point? That’s the focus of Part 3 of our ‘Governing For Burnout’ series, with Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind.

We discuss:

• How a workplace’s culture helps its bottom line

• How Covid’s fucked everything up

• Going beyond wellness lessons. Building wellbeing into people’s job designs.

• Lag signs and lead signs of burnout

• Jaelea’s secret ingredients to a great mental health culture (not that secret at all)

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Future Directors Podcast #68

Governing for Burnout Series

Part 2 - Burnout, board director to board director

When a board is at their limits, they can’t take their org to its potential. This is Part 2 of our ‘Governing For Burnout’ series. In it, Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind and mental health advocate, breaks down how board directors can prevent each other from breaking down.

We chat about:

• The need to make boards a safe place to say you’re burnt out

• Your duty to govern your mental health, and check in with others

• Creating codes of conduct and adopting an org’s wellness plans at board level too

• Board directors being vulnerable about burnout outside the boardroom

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Future Directors Podcast #67

Governing for Burnout Series

Part 1 - How to manage your own burnout as a board director

Boardrooms breed burnout. Most board directors are the hard-nosed sort to gloss over it. That’s a problem. In this, Part 1 of our ‘Governing For Burnout’ series, Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind and mental health advocate, sits with FDI’s Paul and Aisling to skirt the start of a solution.

We go through:

• What burnout is and isn’t
• Why board directors are prone to it
• Warning signs you’re burnt out
• Steps to reverse your fizzle and fatigue

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We are called the Future Directors Institute, but what exactly is a Future Director and why is it not a future director?

In this short trailer for the podcast, we want to give you a clue as to why it's worth listening to Paul and his guests.

You could say that the entire podcast going forward is designed around this simple, yet deep concept.

Wow, it's been 12 months since our last podcast. So much has happened. All you need to know is we are back!

What can you expect?

• Shorter episodes of 15-20min or less
• Fascinating guests from around the world
• Huge focus on real solutions to director & board issues
• Perhaps the odd longer interview dropped in

In this special Decision84-related episode, we have two amazing guests, Sharon Sutherland and Dr. Dean Blomson, discussing the future of boards.

Sharon is the leader with Ernst Young’s Global Center for Board Matters. In her work, she enables board members and directors to navigate their increasingly complex roles. Dr. Dean Blomson is a highly experienced business transformation strategist and professor at UTS Business School in Sydney.

In this episode, we chat about Decision84, our upcoming annual virtual board governance summit, and give a sneak peek into the opening session featuring Sharon and Dean:

• How do we make sure the board can ask the right questions at the right time on the right topics and with the right information?
• How do you exercise stewardship, focusing on how to leave something in a better shape than you found it?
• What ways can the investments in the major capital projects be better thought through and better implemented?
• What are the global megatrends affecting society, organizations, and communities in the longer term?
• Technology and transformational change.
• Shift in geographical dynamics and values dynamics.
• How can the organization address the challenges by looking at the root cause?
• How do we know as a board that our operating model is fit for purpose?

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This special episode features Paul Smith chatting with this podcast's former co-host, Anna Byrne, about our upcoming virtual board governance summit, Decision84.

Decision84 is the world’s leading board governance virtual summit. Held over 2 weeks from 31 August to 9 September, hundreds of decision-makers come together to learn, connect, debate and stretch their thinking. Decision84 is the only international event designed exclusively for those ready to stretch their thinking, push boardroom boundaries and help create the next era of governance.

In this episode, you will find out:

• Why did Anna and Paul start Decision84 last year?
• What were the highlights of the inaugural event in 2020?
• Why is it called Decision84?
• What makes the summit different from other governance conferences?
• What will be discussed at Decision84 this year?
• What is the special discount code for listeners of the podcast?

Check out www.decision84.com for more information.

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