Programme Description

The Directorship Indaba Programmes are exclusively tailored to enable astute Directors opportunity to apply leading edge knowledge; experience and industry insight from our highly charged workshop climate.
Synergy gained through charged interactions, making use of our unique learning model and expertise in director education positions the director ready, to address the chaotic nature of the global business climate in ways that innovatively redefine the potency of your organizations sphere of influence in your industry.

On completing the programme with us, you will be able to join the Executive Education Programme Alumni (EEPA), and become part of a vibrant Executives regional network. Through the (EEPA) you will be able to network with Leading Business Executives from over 15 SADC countries and continue a partnership with us that will have long lasting benefits for you and your organization.

Programme Take Aways

Delegates who have attended our programmes have been able to take home the following:

Boardroom management best practice kit
Effective company Director management rules and procedures
Company operations strategies

Benefits

Increased understanding of your role in the corporate governance environment
Frameworks and strategies to help you effectively manage the critical issues confronting board members today
Overview and development of key frameworks for legal and prudent strategies to help boards navigate in today’s litigious environment
To achieve your business goals, you depend on the actions and the passion of individuals. By giving your team members the scope to develop themselves, you ensure they have the ability to develop your organization. You increase productivity
Knowledge of the dynamics involved in successful negotiation and the skills to develop expertise as a value creating negotiator.
Ability to optimize team effectiveness through analyzing team composition, leveraging information sharing, and resolving leadership challenges
Skills to interpret the subtle messages of power, identify and understand management styles and their organizational impact, and manage meetings involving many individuals with different goals and agendas
A deeper understanding of social networks and techniques to influence individuals and groups
Expertise to address company challenges and individual needs; to achieve your business goals, you depend on the actions and the passion of individuals.
By giving your team members the scope to develop themselves, you ensure they have the ability to develop your organization.
You increase productivity, retention and satisfaction, and build a business that each of them can be proud of.
Build enterprise proficiency through results based feedback
Following our Training Impact Analysis delegates who have attended the Directorship Indaba Development Program demonstrate increased proficiency in implementation of key workshop take aways as shown in the graph below.

Who should attend?

Directors who have attended typically have several years of management experience. They work in companies of different sizes, representing widely diverse industries and coming from all around the SADC Region.
Past participants have included:

Corporate executives
Managers and Directors of business units
Executives poised to take on Directorship positions.

This broad, regional representation offers an unequalled opportunity to share and expand world views and enhance multicultural understanding, alongside exploring modern business issues executives grapple with.
The graph below projects a typical mix of delegates by function for the Directors Indaba Program for 2010.

Delivery Model

Our learning model is characterized as being interactive and dynamic. It taps into the experience; insights and knowledge which enable participants develop a shared language and an understanding of the company's mission, values, businesses, challenges, and opportunities.
This sense of camaraderie helps build effective professional and personal peer networks that are based on trust, communication, and cooperation.

Accreditation

Our workshop programs are created in line with contemporary trends; aligning enterprise knowledge development strategies and the executive career development needs. All the workshop modules are aligned to SAQA Unit Standards.

Programme Workshop Series

In a time of dynamic economic changes, extraordinary solid leadership is required from the boardroom. Today's corporate boards find themselves under pressure to demonstrate independence, accountability, and transparency. Focusing on the critical matters confronting corporate boards, this programme help chairs, committee leaders, and new or experienced directors cultivate leadership and meet their complex obligations as stewards of public enterprises

Corporate Governance (King III Report)

Internal Controls and Financial Risk Management

Boardroom Management Strategy

International Financial Reporting Standards

Fundamentals of Company Secretary

Company Law for company Directors

Organizations Operations Management

Financial Management for Company Directors

Advanced investment Management Skills

Human Resources Management for Directors

Strategic Sales and Marketing Management for Directors

IT Governance for Company Directors

Company Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions

Program Schedule

All our Executive Education Programmes can be customized to address the specific needs of companies and individuals. Whether it involves a small change to an existing programme or a fully tailor-made programme, all programmes are designed and delivered by recognized expert leaders in their fields.