For Boards and Top Teams to be more effective, harmonious, and committed to achieving their Vision. Board members will gain clarity on roles and responsibilities and be more accountable for performing their roles. They will have a plan to strengthen their composition with new membership as well as one for collective development in order to achieve the Organisations Vision and Strategic Plan.

This course has a pre-assessment phase where a comprehensive analysis of cabability and gaps (both individual and collective) will be conducted.

Content

• Assessment results

• Developing the Board and decisions about membership:
  Vision, Mission and Values
  Strategic Direction
  Financial health and Stability
  Compliance
  Assessing the Leadership Team
  Organising Itself Well
  Recruiting and Onboarding
  Maintaining Boundaries
  Making Decisions Effectively
  Holding Board Members Accountable

• Development and Membership Decisions
  Strategic Needs and Board Mix
  Diversity - Potential Exits - Membership

For Executive Teams who are working on a change initiative from the start to help them to kick it off properly and / or explore how they are currently performing within a change initiative.

Prework: Interview Executive Members to understand where they are frustrated with current progress, what they think the issues are and then construct an agenda from this to identify and work through the issues that are keeping change from happening.

Content:

• Quick Review of Change Theory

• General Assessment of Readiness, Resistance and Momentum by unit / area

• What: Get clear on goals: financial, productivity, quality

• Why: Create the Case for Change

• Communicate the Case: Messaging

• How will Leadership go first?

• Identify the Path for change: Outcomes and Risk

• Implement: Mobilise People, Provide Support, Track Progress, Enable Employees, and Celebraeg results

• Checking in and getting better

• How are we working together?

Discussion for Executive Teams who want to engage their teams and create organisational development initiatives to improve engagement intellectually as well as emotionally. Executive teams know how to drive engagement, the tricky part is often holding each other to task and making it a priority. This worhskop will look at how the team makes this happen.

Prework: Assessment Phase: Trainer will consult Executive Team in advance and present overview of findings for discussion and to speed the process.

Content:

• Measuring Engagement

• 4-part assessment

• Structures to engage

• Creating a culture of engagement

• The Key question for the executive team

• Next Steps

For delegates or Boards who wish to develop a pipeline of leaders within their department and strengthen the organisation or who want to create a succession plan and don’t know where to start.

Content

• What Succession Planning means to me

• Defining Future Performance

• Get my house in order: capacity charting, roles, career paths etc

• Topics: Flight risks, roles for succession, internal high-potentials, external recruitment

• How I might be getting in the way

• Overall Planning

This workshop provides a fast pace introduction to the fundamentals of neuromarketing and a simple process to implement this for their company’s advertising, website or business pitches. Delegates will learn the importance of the 4-step (Pain-Claim-Gain-Brain) process, and will acquire the confidence and skills to apply thisto their own business. This session includes instruction, coaching, brainstorming and peer collaboration.

Content:

• Introduction to neuromarketing principles

• What are the only stimuli that reach the decision-making part of your customers’ brain?

• Identify the Pains that drive your customers’ decisions

• Learn to develop strong and creative Claims to position your unique benefits

• Demonstrate your value proposition with your most compelling proofs