SINK or SWIM Cutting Edge Seminars

Corporate Governance Training Programmes

These are run as either Open Programmes and also (more often) as In-House Programmes - they can run anywhere from 2 to 5 Days.

These Programmes will be built around the following Core Clusters:

 

CLUSTER 1: RESPONSIBILITY

Module 1: Understand the four principles that result in good corporate citizenship, leadership, integrity and responsibility

·        How to act and be seen to act as a responsible corporate citizen

·        How to developing strategies to become and remain a good corporate citizen

·        The process of ensuring ethical, effective, transparent, and accountable leadership

·        How to ‘performance manage’ ethical conduct

 

Module 2: Discover Core Principles for empowering effective Boards and Directors

·        The principles relating to the role and functions of the board

·        Key principles in structuring the board

·        What principle that you follow when appointing directors?

·        The principles of director development

·        Why a company secretary should assist the board

·        The need for performance based management of the board and committees

·        How to form committees, delegation and responsibility

·        The underlying Agency Principle

 

Module 3: Principles for integrated enterprise risk management

·        Principles relating to risk responsibility

·        The principles of risk assessment

·        The Risk identification principle

·        How to quantify and responding to risk

·        Why internal audit should assess the integrity of the risk process

·        How to report risk

 

 

CLUSTER 2: RESPONSIBLE MONITORING

Module 4: Understanding and applying ten principles for effective Audit Committees

·        The principles underlying the composition and resources of audit committees

·        Principles reflecting audit committee roles and responsibilities

·        Principles of committee oversight and risk management function

·        Principles relating to the audit committee’s role in appointment of external auditors

·        Principles for accountability of the Audit Committee

 

Module 5: Principles relating to the internal audit function

·        Principles relating the role and importance of internal audit

·        Risk based internal audit

·        The principles defining the status of internal audit

 

 

CLUSTER 3: RESPONSIVENESS

Module 6: Principles to manage stakeholder relationships

·        Apply the principles for identifying and managing stakeholder interests

·        Equitable treatment of Stakeholders – the Stakeholder Inclusive Concept

·        Transparency and Accountability (disclosure)

·        Balancing commercial objectives and social service delivery – communication

·        Discover core principles to resolve stakeholder disputes.

 

Module 7: Understand the framework for integrated sustainability reporting and disclosure

·        The transparency and accountability principles

·        Substance over form – the principle of relevance

·        Reporting methods and timing

 

CLUSTER 4: RESPONSIBILITY IN PRACTICE

Module 8: The importance of Robust IT Governance

·        Recognising the pervasiveness of IT

·        Ensuring a robust IT Governance Framework

·        The Board’s IT Governance responsibility

 

Module 9: Complying with laws, rules and standards

Comply by...

·        Adhering to standards

·        Ensuring directors and offices ‘know the law’

·        Implementing an effective compliance framework

·        Including compliance in risk management

 

 

KEY WORKSHOP MODULES: (that can be included - based on KING III Framework)

-         Ethical Leadership and Corporate Citizenship

-         Board Structure

o  Roles and Responsibilities of Directors

-         Audit Functions and Framework

-         Risk Management Framework

-         IT Assessment and Management Framework

-         Compliance Map

-         Stakeholder Map

-         Integrated Reporting  Framework