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Join us in Melbourne over three consecutive days in November to listen and learn from the real-world stories of our facilitators and how they have successfully navigated the boardroom.

 

Tuesday 19–Thursday 21 November | 8:30 AM–4:30 PM

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Melbourne Flinders Street, Melbourne

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Course overview

Explore the role of the company director and the board’s vital contribution towards organisational culture and sustainable governance. This course draws on theory, practice and the collective knowledge of the participants to simulate the boardroom experience.

Support your understanding of the role of the director and the board with a focus on the soft skills required to be an effective director in the boardroom environment.

Uniquely based around one hypothetical case study to support your practical learning, our Effective Director Course gives you the unique opportunity to practice your director questioning skills, explore effective board and executive engagement and view the inner workings of a board.

    • Key information
  • Duration: 3 full days
    When: Tuesday, 19–Thursday, 21 November 2024
    Time: 8:30am–4:30pm (AEST)
    • Learning objectives
  • • Practical tools and tips on how to be an effective director
    • Frameworks and the theory behind best practice director communication
    • Learn about executive engagement and how a board operates and makes decisions
    • Participate in a boardroom simulation
    • Understand how a director and board acquires information
    • Who should do the course?
  • • Aspiring or newly appointed directors
    • Executives seeking director transition pathways
    • Directors wanting to refine their skills
    • Senior executives reporting into a board
    • Delivery
  • Face-to-face
    DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Melbourne Flinders Street, Melbourne

After attending the course, you will: 

  • Walk away with practical tools and tips on how to be an effective director.
  • Understand the frameworks and the theory behind best practice director communication.
  • Learn about executive engagement and how a board operates and makes decisions.
  • Participate in a boardroom simulation and practice your director questioning skills.
  • Understand how a director and board acquires information.
  • Receive tips from an executive recruiter on how to acquire a board role.
  • Gain valuable personal insights from the facilitators and meet a practising non- executive director on how to find board roles and thrive as a director in the boardroom.

The course materials will be provided for pre-reading 10 days prior to the start of your course. Assessment consists of reflective written responses to each of modules 1 to 3.

How is this course delivered:

Face-to-face over three consecutive days at the: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Melbourne Flinders Street, Melbourne. All catering including the board dinner is included in your registration. Please advise us of dietaries when registering.

Over three days, you will complete the program which is displayed in the table above and will be held on Tuesday 19th November – Thursday 21st November.

The facilitators are senior governance and risk professionals with executive and/or non-executive experience who have worked across a number of sectors/industries. They will guide you through the course materials and activities.

Networking opportunities are provided throughout the course as we put you into groups and work through the hypothetical case study together.

 

Complete course outline here

How much is this course?

Type Price
Member $4,190
Subscriber $4,400
Non-member $4,760

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“The Effective Director Course provided me with an excellent balance of regulatory and governance theory with real life case studies of director behaviour and communication styles, which I can immediately apply to my current director role”
Richard Scott, Director of Geographies, Marketing, Communications and Business Development, Deloitte