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Scheduled DatesCourse OverviewStrong board governance is essential for ensuring organisational accountability, strategic direction, and long term sustainability. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of how boards operate, how governance responsibilities are exercised, and how effective oversight supports organisational performance. Participants will explore the roles, responsibilities, and behaviours expected of board members and senior leaders in well governed organisations.
Delivered as a two week programme, the course goes beyond introductory governance concepts to focus on practical board level oversight, decision making, and assurance. Participants will gain clarity on governance structures, risk oversight, ethical leadership, and board effectiveness, enabling them to contribute confidently and responsibly to board and committee work.
Objective:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to
• Understand the purpose and responsibilities of boards
• Strengthen governance structures and oversight practices
• Support effective board decision making
• Improve risk, compliance, and performance oversight
• Enhance board effectiveness and accountability
Course Outline
• Understanding the role and purpose of boards
• Governance principles and accountability
• Boards and organisational performance
• Common governance challenges
• Duties of board members
• Collective and individual accountability
• Relationship between board and management
• Boundaries between oversight and operations
• Board structures and composition
• Role of board committees
• Defining terms of reference
• Ensuring effective information flow
• Board involvement in strategy
• Reviewing and challenging strategic direction
• Monitoring strategic performance
• Supporting long term organisational sustainability
• Understanding organisational risk
• Board responsibility for risk oversight
• Compliance and regulatory awareness
• Strengthening assurance mechanisms
• Board responsibility for financial oversight
• Understanding financial reports at board level
• Budget oversight and financial controls
• Ensuring transparency and accountability
• Board responsibility for ethical leadership
• Oversight of organisational culture
• Managing conflicts of interest
• Promoting integrity and trust
• Effective board discussions and challenge
• Managing diverse perspectives
• Improving board decision quality
• Handling difficult board issues
• Assessing board and committee effectiveness
• Identifying improvement areas
• Supporting continuous governance improvement
• Strengthening board capability
• Enhancing board practices and processes
• Improving board management relationships
• Preparing for future governance challenges
• Sustaining effective board oversight
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Date: 10 - 21 Aug 2026
Duration: 10 Days
Venue: London
Price: £8,600
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Date: 19 - 30 Oct 2026
Duration: 10 Days
Venue: Dubai
Price: £8,600
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Date: 28 Dec, 2026 - 08 Jan, 2027
Duration: 10 Days
Venue: London
Price: £8,600
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Date: 26 Oct - 06 Nov 2026
Duration: 5 Days
Venue: Dubai
Price: £4,500
Date: 12 - 23 Oct 2026
Duration: 5 Days
Venue: Dubai
Price: £4,300
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