Improving Personal Impact in the Boardroom

Acquired skills

• Extracting relevant information in meetings and navigate around cognitive bias
• Challenging constructively and effectively
• Leading with conviction when you are not convinced by other ideas
• Leveraging and building on different ideas from other board members

The Board of Directors is a place for discussion and debate between directors leading to collegial discussions. Interacting effectively with your peers requires mastering different behavioral qualities, known as soft skills.

Knowing how to adopt the appropriate postures for this very particular type of collegial work is crucial.

Having influence in a Board of Directors meeting requires mastering communication techniques to extract information, challenge constructively and lead with ideas. It also involves the ability to leverage the different expertise and experience from the other Board members.

This course gives the participant a communication toolkit of what to say, how to say it and when to say it in order to make incisive contributions to the discussion and move the debate forward.

Benefits of the course

At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:

• Position the discussion at a level appropriate for the Board
• Participate in Board meetings with a constructive posture
• Promote co-construction to reach collegial decisions with other administrators
• Build a collaborative relation with management

The content involves not only academic presentations, but also practical examples based on real life experience. The course offers discussion opportunities and sharing of experience with both presenters and other course participants.

A certificate of attendance will be delivered at the end of the course.