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Director Development

Becoming a high-performance Board. ‘A Business Leader’s 60-minute guide to building a high-performance Board’

Course Overview

Top performing boards don’t just happen by luck – they are built through deliberate focus on the things that matter. If you have ever wondered what a high-performing board really looks like, this insightful interactive session will help you navigate what constitutes a high performing board and importantly, how to get there.

Course Content

  • Board performance as collective responsibility
  • High-performing board characteristics
    • High energy and open, respectful discussions
    • Focus beyond compliance
    • Real engagement
    • Strategic clarity
    • Cognitive diversity

You will see the value of adopting common practices of highly effective boards and of valuing diverse personalities on the board against a backdrop of common purpose.

You will explore the ‘Seven things great boards do well’ and will gain an overview of reviewing board effectiveness, including a practical checklist for self-assessment.

Course Details

Start date

20 March 2026

CPD Points

1.0

Price

£50.00

Length

1 hour - online (12:30-13:30)

Course Tutor

David Joel

David Joel is a professionally qualified, Chartered Director. He is a qualified physicist with 20 years in the defence engineering and technology sectors and 10 years in the services and facilities management sector mostly at board level. David’s experience covers public sector, private sector and regulated companies. He has undertaken many board effectiveness reviews and has worked with the Institute of Directors delivering the ‘Finance for non-Financial Directors’ programme and the ‘Leadership’ programme for the certificate in company direction and was a lead facilitator for the Diploma in Company Direction for the Institute of Directors.

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