Personal Skills for High-Performance Directors and Boards

If your board members hone these skills, your board will be well poised for high-performance.

(Skill)Set Yourself Apart as a Director

We must continuously invest in ourselves to remain relevant. Do not let your knowledge, practices and skills become outdated.

Boardroom Conversations for the Future

In drafting this piece about what the Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as 4IR) means for us as boards and directors, I am inspired by this tweet of a friend and colleague of mine, Richard Mulholland: The point is for directors to consider the idea of 4IR as potentially more of an evolution. The challenge is […]

Five Mistakes to Avoid when conducting a Board Evaluation

By Catherine Engmann A few months ago, a friend who I have worked with on various consulting projects sought my advice. He wanted to understand the best way to approach a board evaluation for a company that he was undertaking a financial consulting project with. While my friend is an excellent financial consultant, he has […]

The Importance of Director Education

Many may think that you have “arrived” now that you have been appointed as a director. You have worked relentlessly to be placed in such a position of trust and responsibility. All eyes are on you. Read that again: All eyes are on you. All stakeholders – shareholders, customers, employees, industry, the community – rely […]