RX For The Board Seminar

Achieving Success Through the Basics

Morning Session

  • Understanding the Nature and Types of Boards
  • Mastering the Dynamics of the Board
  • Attaining Effective Board Leadership

Afternoon Session

  • Mastering the Life-Cycle of the Board
  • Working with Culturally Diverse Board Members
  • Understanding the Ethical and Legal Issues of Board Work
  • Questions & Discussion

RX for The Board: Achieving Success Through the Basics

Module One: Understanding the Nature and Types of Boards

  • Defining the Core Skills of the Board
  • Identifying the Board and Governance Processes
  • Functioning as a Task or Work Board
  • Functioning as a Guidance or Problem-Solving Board
  • Becoming a Hybrid Board
  • Building Board Cohesion to Facilitate Development

 Module Two: Mastering the Dynamics of the Board

  • Understanding Board Content and Board Process
  • The Board as a System
  • Governing the Board’s Dynamics
  • Controlling the Effects of Variables on the Board’s Dynamics
  • Understanding the Relationship of Board and Individual Dynamics
  • Balancing the Individual and the Board
  • Overcoming the Group-Think Tragedy

Module Three: Attaining Effective Board Leadership

  • Defining Board Leadership
  • Identifying the Styles of Board Leadership
  • Assessing the Personal Qualities of Effective Board Leaders
  • Understanding the Core Skills of Effective Board Leaders
  • Committing to the Functions of Board Leaders
  • Working with Co-Leaders in Boards
  • Mastering Collective Behavior

Module Four: Mastering the Life-Cycle of the Board

  • Building the Board
  • Transforming the Board
  • Working through the Board
  • Modifying the Board
  • Joining and Leaving Boards
  • Managing Boards Throughout the Life Span of the Organization

Module Five: Working with Culturally Diverse Board Members

  • Mastering the Challenges of Culturally Diverse Boards
  • Identifying the Myths about Multicultural Boards
  • Becoming a Leader in Culturally Diverse Boards
  • Assessing Culturally Diversity in a Board
  • Setting the Goals of Multicultural Groups
  • Working with Different Cultures in Boards

Module Six: Understanding the Ethical and Legal Issues of Board Work

  • Ethics and Ethical Codes
  • Core Ethical Issues in Board Work
  • Ethical Decision-Making
  • Promoting Ethical Principles in Board Work
  • Responding to Alleged Unethical Complaints
  • Legal Issues in Board Work Fiduciary Response Succession Planning as Finding Dynamic Leaders

Module Seven: Questions & Discussion

 

 

FOCUS: MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

Duration: One Day Seminar

Description

The Newkirk Group designed this seminar to illuminate the path to successful Board Performance. We clarify the impacts of diversity on Boards and provide an innovative framework for Board success.  We discuss Board Leadership from the strategic perspective as a dynamic process enabled by emerging global thinking and group dynamics. We progress from mastering governance in the global environment and governing the diverse corporation to mastering the challenges of globalization and diversity for optimum results. We explore the Board as an action lever for reducing corporate conflicts, closing cultural gaps, enhancing management performance, and improving profitability of the global transition solution. We examine the hidden globalization roadblocks and address the cultural and psychological issues which negatively impact group work in the global environment.

Objectives

Improving Board performance is the core objective of this seminar. We cover Board Level strategy and explore team-based diversity as an emerging management path to success given the constraints of culture, corporate history, global complexity, costs constraints, Information Technology, time, expectations, resistance, and weak conceptualizations. Depending on the needs of clients, the objectives may include any of the following:

  • Crystallize the Globalization Vision and Mission to Lead Diverse Management Teams;
  • Inform a Globalization Strategy for Board and Corporate Success;
  • Examine the Hidden Challenges of Globalization and Their Roadblocks to Success;
  • Master the Pitfalls of Global Strategies and Plans;
  • Clarify the Globalization Cultural Expectations;
  • Map the Diversity Road to Success;
  • Establish a Standard of Ethical Performance Norms;
  • Examine the Psychological Factors of Diversity That Impact Corporate Performance;
  • Transition from Local Thinking to Ethnic Success;
  • Inspire Management Teams to Excel in a Cross-Cultural Environments;
  • Resolve Multicultural Conflict, and
  • Mastering Global Cultural Dynamics.

You Will Learn How To:

  • Become a Global Leader and Board Member by:
  • Articulating a Workable Vision to Put Globalization on a Business Basis;
  • Clarifying the Globalization Mission and Producing a Realistic Governance Charter: Improving the Performance of the Board and Diversity-Oriented Leadership Processes;
  • Identifying All Expectations of Program Stakeholders;
  • Paving a Realistic Road to Success in a Multicultural Business Environment;
  • Integrating social facilitation, social combination, and social motivation;
  • Leveraging the Board’s Leadership Capacities to Improve Corporate Performance in a Global Business Environment, and
  • Making ethical decisions and promoting ethical principles.

You Will Also Develop Powerful Multicultural Socialization Techniques by:

  • Identifying the source of multicultural management team success;
  • Balancing the sources of Board power, influence, and change to avoid hidden conflict;
  • Resolving intergroup conflict for better results;
  • Differentiating the globalization expectations of the Board from management team members;
  • Integrating leadership globalization, managerial diversity, and corporate culture;
  • Managing communications to overcome the Group Think Tragedy, and
  • Linking corrective emotional experience to project plans to obtain expected results.

You Will Form Diverse Work Groups, Teams, and Cultural Systems to Achieve the Highest Level of Performance Attainable (Ulthule) by:

  • Examining the Current Situation for Action;
  • Linking the Globalization Program to the Corporate Business Strategy;
  • Identifying and Leveraging the Primary Advantages of Globalization;
  • Assessing the Range of Cultural Diversity in Management Teams;
  • Defusing Potential Cultural Problems; Opening the Window of Opportunity;
  • Identifying the CSFs and CFFs of Globalization;
  • Clarifying the Rrelationship Between Globalization and the Business Mission;
  • Discussing the Dynamics and Characteristics of Global Leadership;
  •  Establishing a Safe Environment to Charter the Corporate Globalization Program, and
  •  Designing a Globalization Model as a Competitive Edge in Achieving Exceptional Performance.

 Who Should Attend

  • Members of the Board of Directors;
  • Invited Senior Managers Working with Board Members, and
  • Other Personnel Invited by the Board Members such as Senior Executive Manger Concerned with Program Strategy, Vision Building, Chartering, Globalization Management and Cultural Maintenance.