Who does what at the top
Governance principles, board roles and the governance professional.
Three hours on who does what at the top: the board's core duties, the chair and chief executive relationship and the governance professional as strategic partner.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- Where
- Good Governance
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Board members, executives and governance professionals clarifying their roles
Overview
Governance is not management wearing a suit. This programme clarifies who does what at the top of an organisation and why it matters for public trust. It sets out the board's eight core duties, the tension between conformance and performance through Garratt's strategic board, Galbraith's star model, the Cadbury Report and the Nolan Principles. It then explores the chair and chief executive relationship, friendly but not friends, with lessons from ICI and Kodak, and closes with the governance professional's shift from minute taker to strategic partner, drawing on Kakabadse's Henley study and the working triumvirate.
Aims
This programme aims to develop board members, executives and governance professionals who are clear about their distinct roles and how those roles work together. It builds the judgement to tell a governance question from a management one, to keep the chair and chief executive relationship both warm and challenging, and to protect independent governance advice.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Distinguish governance from management and explain the board's core duties, using Garratt, Galbraith and the Nolan Principles to test whether structures are coherent.
- Apply the obligations of chair and chief executive, and the core craft of chairing, to improve how a board reaches and holds its decisions.
- Assess whether the governance professional's role, capabilities and reporting line give the working triumvirate the independent advice it depends on.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Distinguish a governance question from a management question and explain the board's eight core duties in plain terms.
- Use Garratt's strategic board and Galbraith's star model to assess whether a board's roles and structure are coherent and deliberately chosen.
- Describe the chair's four part role and the obligations chair and chief executive owe each other, and explain why the relationship needs both warmth and distance.
- Apply the core craft skills of chairing across the meeting cycle to draw out the room's best thinking and avoid common pitfalls.
- Explain how the governance professional role has moved from administration to strategic partnership, and identify the four capabilities it now requires.
- Describe the four roles within the role, alignment, influence, diplomatic judgement and trust, and recognise them in practice.
Built from 3 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01The bones of good governanceGovernance principles, structures and processesBitesize1 module
- 02The top tableRoles of the chair, chief executive and boardBitesize1 module
- 03The quiet guardianThe role of the governance professionalBitesize1 module
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 3 hours, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Governing well, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
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. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Governing with confidence