Boardroom Education

Boardroom Education

Fast-track route to designing and delivering educational initiatives aimed at directors and board-level executives
Covers the key areas of defining the development needs of the Board, designing seminars and programs that inform and inspire their ability to make company strategy, capturing and integrating the contribution of independent directors and managing a wide range of suppliers from business school gurus to boardroom learning specialists

What is astonishing about this statement is that, even so recently as a decade ago, it needed to be made at all. The gap in systematic boardroom development was generally unrecognized until the last decade of the twentieth century. Prior to that, boardroom skills were deemed by senior executives to be something one picked up along the way to the top, either as a by-product of one’s professional education or experience in the ranks of middle or senior management or by virtue of an old-style high-flyer program.
The price of this neglect is very high. As Garratt pointed out: ‘‘The lack of boardroom development means there is not enough energy, time, or diversity of thinking going into the direction-giving policies and strategies of the organization. A vacuum is created where the focus of organizational learning should be.’’

Michel Syrett and Jean Lammiman