Developing your Board Workshop – Friday 30^th September 2016

About the Workshop 

This workshop is for boards of directors seeking to add increased value and boost performance through learning about their roles as directors also how to best guide the business and develop the board further.

Objectives  

This workshop is designed specifically to allow you to learn about and understand: 

• Understand Governance and why it matters 
• Understand the Role and Value of a Board
• Understand  the Role of non-executive directors 
• Champion the role of chair 
• Get the right composition of board
• Understand how to source expertise for the next growth level of the board
• Identity typical board dilemmas
• Develop and Evaluate a Board
• Examine the company life cycle and the structure  of the board
• Identify impactful ways which the board can add value

    
Training Provider

Deirdre Smith of Green Point Consultancy is a Chartered Director with the Institute of Directors, Deirdre holds Non Exec role with RSI, CRF.  An Enterprise Ireland Business Partner & Mentor active in Start-up Ecosystem with companies- GfG, Propeller, SFI-TIDA  as well as the Web Summit, GIEF, ISA Awards. Deirdre is a Tech Entrepreneur and co-founder of Zandar Technologies

Format 

1. One Day Workshop. This is an engaging workshop that combines teaching with analysis of real and relevant cases plus discussion elements and it will include issues relating to your own companies.  You will receive relevant material to take away as well as a post workshop follow-up session to focus on next step implementation of issues covered in the workshop.  There will be several participants attending the workshop and an opportunity to raise issues relevant to your own situation. 
2. Post Workshop follow-up implementation session. A post workshop session will be offered to each company to focus on next step implementation of issues covered in the course.

Who should attend?                                                                                                 

• Start-ups seeking funding
• SMEs embarking on a growth plan to expand or export
• Family businesses or others with sensitive dynamics

To get the most from the day, we strongly advice that you bring a relevant senior colleague who is also a board member of your business.

Workshop Cost        
                                                                                                    

Enterprise Ireland supports the overall costs. Companies pay €300, which allows companies to bring up to 3 participants to the workshop.

Workshop Date

This workshop will be held on Friday 30^th September, 2016.

Venue

Enterprise Ireland HQ,
The Plaza,
East Point Business Park,
Dublin 3

Apply here

https://www.eventsforce.net/enterpriseireland/1844/register

Contact

For further information, please contact:

Monica Kinsella, Programme Co-ordinator

Email:monica.kinsella@enterprise-ireland.comTel: 353 1 727 2897