One Day Seminar for Small Businesses: A Taste of Governance
"Am I doing it right? Can I do it better?"

Objective
To better equip directors, trustees and board members to serve the interests and investments of the communities who appointed them.

Who should attend?
Newly appointed directors on the boards of small and medium-sized companies, trustees and members of governing boards of private and public sector organisations.  Aspiring directors and trustees and schools, community and NGO’s.

Governance:
This term is an overused expression but it is still imperative that your organisation is undertaking the best form of governance resources and current knowledge can provide. The seminar aims to:

• Take the myth out of governance
• Find out what it means in terms of everyday business
• Provide participants with a “kit set” of understanding, ideas, solutions and outcomes
• Learn from examples and story-telling in an interactive session with people who have been involved in governance before it became popular.

Content:
Sessions will cover:

• What is governance?
• Why are we on boards?
• Making it work better.
• The board and strategy.
• A board tool kit.

It will be composed of:

• A series of targeted presentations
• Written material and supplementary presentations in electronic and hardcopy form
• A self-evaluation development assessment.

Seminar Output:
At the end of the seminar, each participant should be able to:

• Participate and add value in the Boardroom.
• Understand and discharge their basic legal and ethical duties.
• Make decisions against appropriate criteria to improve the welfare of their beneficiaries and investors.
• Meet the accountability requirements expected of them.

What do you get?

• A practical perspective of Governance from acknowledged professionals.
• An interactive, discussion environment
• A personalised certificate of attendance.

Interested? 
Then the next step is for your organisation to contact Ron Hamilton of The Boardroom Practice in regard to convening a seminar in your area. The Boardroom Practice needs a firm commitment for a minimum of 12 participants for the seminar to proceed.