Board Effectiveness and Directors Duties

Board seats carry personal duties that many directors have never had set out plainly. This programme covers those duties, and then the harder question of how a board earns its place: the balance between oversight and interference, the information a board should insist on, and the behaviours that separate a functioning board from a compliant one.

It runs 4 times over the published calendar, in 4 cities. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• State a director's duties and the circumstances in which personal liability arises.
• Distinguish board oversight from management interference in practice.
• Specify the information a board needs and challenge what it is given.
• Recognise the behavioural patterns that make boards ineffective.

Directors, prospective directors, company secretaries and executives who report into a board.

Short input, then work. Across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A duties summary the delegate can hold against their own conduct.
• A board information specification for the delegate's organisation.
• A self assessment of the delegate's own board or reporting line.
• A set of challenge questions for recurring board papers.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.