Governing with confidence
Board, Chair and Trustee Programme.
The complete governance programme: four whole topics for chairs, board members and trustees who want to govern with confidence.
- Level
- Flagship
- Learning time
- 22 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Boards and governance
- Price
- £549
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Board members, chairs, trustees and audit committees
Overview
Governing with confidence brings four whole topics together for chairs, board members, trustees and audit committee members. It starts with governance as a discipline in its own right: the board's core duties, the chair and chief executive relationship, the governance professional, and the board's part in strategy, risk and performance. It then moves into the room, with the craft of chairing from agenda to minutes, Kaner's Diamond of Participation and Bion on group dynamics. Assurance follows: the Three Lines Model, internal audit, the audit committee and assurance mapping. Finally it turns to ethics, the Nolan Principles, conflicts of interest, candour and ethical culture, tested against HBOS and Thurrock.
Aims
The aim is to give board members, chairs, trustees and audit committees the judgement to govern rather than manage: to tell assurance from reassurance, to chair and challenge with fairness and skill, and to hold their organisation, and themselves, to the standards of integrity that public trust depends on.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain the distinct roles of the board, chair, chief executive, governance professional and audit committee, and how each contributes to strategy, oversight and accountability.
- Assess whether your board is receiving assurance rather than reassurance, using assurance mapping, the Three Lines Model, internal control and well-designed reporting.
- Lead board and committee business with fairness and integrity, chairing discussion well, handling interests and dissent, and building an ethical culture the organisation can see.
What you'll develop
Through the programme, you will be able to:
- Distinguish a governance question from a management question and explain the board's eight core duties in plain terms.
- Explain what integrated reporting combines and assess a board report against the standard of concise, reliable, strategically focused and visible.
- Identify which of Lencioni's four meeting types fits a conversation and recognise the common signs of a mismatch.
- Explain the four jobs that minutes do and identify what good minutes should contain, including brief evidence of challenge.
- Describe the structure of the Global Internal Audit Standards and the role they give the board or audit committee in governing internal audit.
- Apply the four lenses of evidence, independence, the committee and map, and fraud and voice to analyse a governance failure fairly, without implying individual wrongdoing.
- Distinguish a code of conduct, which sets minimum standards, from a behavioural framework, which describes what good looks like.
- Apply the programme's ethical themes, from blind spots to culture, to analyse a real or illustrative case.
Built from 4 parts.
22 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Governing wellGood GovernanceExplore · Good Governance7 modules
- 02In the chairChairing Meetings, Boards and CommitteesExplore · Chairing Meetings, Boards and Committees9 modules
- 03Assurance that countsAudit and Assurance for boards and leadersExplore · Audit and Assurance9 modules
- 04Integrity firstEthics, Integrity and StandardsExplore · Ethics, Integrity and Standards9 modules