The New Directors Handbook: How to become more confident, more effective, more quickly

by Richard Winfield

Overview

Joining a board of directors is a great honour. It enables you to make an enhanced contribution to the success of an organisation but it also involves responsibilities and risks. Where regulation and litigation are concerned, ignorance is not an excuse.

Being a company director requires a different mindset, new skills, a new identity and changed relationships. The New Directors Handbook will introduce you to the roles, responsibilities and risks you should be aware of as a company director, as well as providing you with some tools to help you in your career.

It has grown out of many years' experience working directly with new directors and existing boards from around the world. As such it addresses the essential needs and practical challenges of real directors. Read it through and it will provide you with a comprehensive foundation for your career as a company director. Then use it as a reference and return to it when you need to.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780948537127
Publisher:	Brefi Group Limited
Publication date:	09/18/2015
Series:	Company Directors Masterclass
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Richard Winfield is the founder and principal consultant of Brefi Group. His talent is in bringing structure and clarity to people's thinking, identifying core issues and making complex ideas simple. For more than 30 years he has specialised in the development of individuals and teams in organisations and is now an international facilitator working at board level. His practical experience working with boards of companies in different countries, combined with his long term study of the development of corporate governance codes and practice provide the basis for this practical guide to becoming an effective director.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Company Directors and the Functions of a Board
3. Before You Become a Director
4. Corporate Governance and the Role of the Board
5. Company finance
6. Roles and Responsibilities of Directors
7. The non-executive director
8. The Transition Phase
9. Practical Challenges
10. Behaviours
11. Effective meetings
12. Performance Measures
13. Strategic Thinking
14. Business planning, Risk Analysis and Mitigation
15. Effective Communication with Stakeholders
16. Corporate governance checklists
17. About the Brefi Group

Editorial Reviews

"This could become the definitive guide; a must read for new boards, new listings, small and medium companies. I shall certainly use it - of that there is no doubt - for my companies." - Nigel Payne, Chairman of AIM listed company "We do need to reassure/inspire individuals to become NED's and this book does just that. A reliable read that de-mystifies the role." - Jerry Blackett, Chief Executive, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce

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