Here at the Board Development Agency, we believe that to be an effective leader or board member you need the right skills and competencies to carry out the job. We are the only organisation that specialise in governance only courses, which will provide your board members with the knowledge, skills and confidence to carry out their roles effectively.
We work with you to develop and implement training and development for the whole board and or individual board members, to meet needs identified in your development plans from your board performance review.
Please take a look below at our comprehensive training courses. If you can't find what you are looking for, please contact us as we design and provide board education and development programmes to suit your board's needs.
Board/ Chair Training Courses
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Induction for New Board Members |
This one day training programme will help new members hit the ground running. What does the role entitle and what is expected of you? |
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Essential Chairs Leadership Award |
Build your leadership skills to help lead your board members. Invest in your chair for governance success. This is a one day course aims to build your leadership skills and confidence, enabling you to lead your board members more effectively, missing the pitfalls on the way. The course is aimed at: chairs, vice chairs, potential chairs of board and tenant organisations. The workshop will contain essential units such as: For more information on content and future course dates go to Essential Chairs Leadership Award page. |
| The Dynamic Audit Committee | The engine room of any board. How should it operate? What it should look at and how well should it work? |
| Customer Service for Board Members | Understand what good Customer Service should be from a board members position and how board members can contribute to customer service. |
| Dispute Resolution | We hope you will never have to think about disciplining a board member. However, are you prepared should you ever need to do so?
This programme will give you the confidence to know that you have the right approach and policies in place. |
| Complaints Handling and the Localism Act 2012 |
This course helps ensure that you have a robust and effective complaints system in place, to ensure you to learn from mistakes by dealing with complaints proactively and using these to help organisational improvement. |
ILM Endorsed Programmes
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Intermediate Boardcraft Award ILM endorsed
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Complete five of our one day training courses to achieve the award on a modular basis, or sign up 12 members of the board for an In-house Boardcraft Award.
This will provide an essential toolkit of skills for board members and chairs, which will sharpen up their boardroom skills. |
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Advanced Boardcraft Award ILM endorsed |
Complete an eight of our one day training courses to achieve the advanced award on a modular basis or sign up 12 members of the board for an In-house Boardcraft Award.
The Boardcraft Award will equip board members with the knowledge, skills and confidence to make a successful contribution to the organisation at this advanced level. |
| Chairs Leadership Programme ILM endorsed |
The Chairs Leadership Programme is a three day Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) endorsed programme for: chairs, vice chairs, potential chairs of the board and tenant organisations. Being ILM, you will also receive a certificate to prove you have completed the course. The course provides chairs with the opportunity to meet people doing the same roles in other organisations and share issues and best practice. It is practically based with role plays and plenty of discussions, which help chairs examine in detail what a good chair needs to do. Day 1 Defining the Role of Chair - what it is all about in today's climate For more information on content and future course dates go to Chairs Leadership Training programme. |
| Intermediate Governance Programme ILM endorsed | Institute of Leadership and Management endorsed award for existing board members which focuses on the discipline of governance. Duration of the course is five sessions. |
| Advanced Governance Programme ILM endorsed | Institute of Leadership and Management endorsed award for existing board members which focuses on advanced level governance. Duration of the course is five sessions. |
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Equality and Diversity ILM Level 4 |
In this taught programme you will explore the nature and origins of personal values, beliefs, attitudes and prejudices and the impact that this can have on workplace behaviour. It will also help to develop an understanding of the participants' role and responsibility in the value of managing diversity.
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| ILM VRQ Coaching and mentoring Level 3 | In this taught programme you will develop your coaching and mentoring skills. Through the use of this method, you will develop effective team leadership in your board.
We know from watching sports that leadership comes from the head coach and is essential for the success of the whole team. It is not only necessary for success on the football or rugby field, but in the boardroom too. |
| ILM VRQ Coaching and mentoring Level 5 |
For senior board members, as above, this is a six day course. Using the coaching and mentoring method
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We are extremely flexible and courses can be set up in-house for your ease and efficiency.
Fees
Our training programmes are offered at fees you can afford. For up to date cost please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Discounted fees are available for members of the National Association of Governance Officers - GO!
