Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting

Introduction

This Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting training course helps delegates understand and leverage the mechanics of effective board meetings. Members of the board frequently need to get together to reach pivotal, far-reaching decisions. The board functions as an independent and disinterested single unit, making decisions on an unformed basis, with good faith believe that it is in the best of the organization. Therefore, ensuring that the considerable experience that resides within the board is fully drawn upon for quality decision making. Sound problem solving and analytical skills, astute decision-making skills, facilitation prowess and a good portion of psychological insight are the key ingredients that set the best meetings apart from those that fail to deliver. In this engaging and interactive 5-day training course, participants will explore a range of skills that will enable them to maximise the output of each board meeting. Delegates will learn how to reach complex decisions as a group, how to generate creative solutions to challenging problems, and how to set effective rules of engagement from the outset. They will also discover how different personality styles affect the quality of a meeting, apply strategies for influencing key stakeholders and learn how to handle conflicts and differing opinions that could otherwise derail a board meeting.

The course will highlight:

• The fundamentals of effective board meetings
• Shaping your ROEs (Rules Of Engagement)
• Critical and creative thinking methods for effective problem solving
• Reaching high-quality decisions when the stakes are high
• The hidden psychological dynamics of a board meeting

OBJECTIVES

• Understand what sets effective board meetings apart from ineffective ones
• Reach high-stakes decisions as a group while avoiding common biases
• Solve tough problems with data, clarity, and high-quality debate
• Influence and persuade other meeting participants constructively
• Read the invisible psychological forces that shape a meeting

Training Methodology

This training course utilises a blended learning approach, and it employs a variety of adult learning techniques such as action learning, group discussions, video case studies and self-reflection exercises. These approaches will help delegates to stay engaged throughout the course, feel challenged and draw quick wins for their own development. It also ensures delegates will have the opportunities to link their learning to the real-world challenges they face back in the workplace.

Organisational Impact

Organisations will derive the following benefits:

• Save time and money by eliminating ineffective meetings
• Enable the board to debate with focus and purpose
• Improve the quality of the board’s joint decision making
• Decrease the risk of derailed meetings and the negative consequences they entail
• Develop high-caliber board members
• Increase your overall competitiveness

Personal Impact

• Contribute efficiently to the board meetings you are participating in
• Gain valuable meeting facilitation skills
• Build your problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Enhance your standing as a member of the board
• Set yourself apart and accelerate your career
• Network and share experiences with other accomplished directors and executives

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