Your duty as a director under section 172 is to act, in good faith, in a way that would be most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole. There are practical steps that you can take to help you discharge your section 172 duty and training is one of them.

• The GC100 Guidance on Directors’ Duties outline 3 points:
  Provide suitable induction training to all new directors and provide refresher courses from time to time.
• Consider what other training or career development is appropriate to extend the skills of the company’s managers and others generally.
• Provide guidance for directors including explanations of directors’ roles, duties, and responsibilities.

The Masterclass is an appropriate (and exciting) component of a new director onboarding programme. Given the focus of the training course on contemporary boardroom topics, it is also ideally suited as a refresher course for more established non-executive directors and board members.

The Modern Board Member Masterclass covers a wide range of contemporary topics relevant to today’s boardroom:

Introduction, including directors’ duties

• Strategy
• Engaging with the Finance Director
• Boardroom dynamics
• Succession planning
• Risk management
• ESG: climate change
• ESG: human rights
• Stakeholder engagement
• Remuneration and rewards
• Digital transformation

As the UK professional body for non-executive directors and board members and the institute of board members, we have real-world experience of the ongoing professional development of non-executive directors and board members.

A professional body is an organisation with individual members practicing a profession in which the organisation maintains an oversight of the knowledge, skills, conduct and practice of that. Further information can be found on the gov.uk website or visit our website (https://www.nedonboard.com/).

NEDonBoard is the trading name of the Global Institute of Board Members. The term ‘institute’ is a protected word in the UK and organisations may only use the word if they are "organisations which are carrying out research at the highest level or to professional bodies of the highest standing" and receive approval from the secretary of State.

Here is why you should select NEDonBoard as your board of directors training partner and the Modern Board Member Masterclass as your board training course:

The Masterclass has been designed with the input of the NEDonBoard community of NEDs and board members.

It is delivered by subject matter experts and non-executive directors.

It is the only course in the market that focuses on modern and contemporary governance topics.

You are awarded a professional qualification upon completion of the course.

There are no comparable training courses in the market in terms of content, quality, delivery, and user experience.

The Modern Board Member Masterclass is an online and self-paced course, so you can move through the materials at a speed that is right for you. The length of our videos varies between 5 to 30 minutes, totalling over 8 hours of high-quality, relevant, and actionable content. To complement and reinforce the learnings, you will also receive soft copies of insightful publications. You should allow for approximately 20 hours, up to 25 hours to complete the course.

The Modern Board Member Masterclass comes with 6-month NEDonBoard Standard Membership access. Members of our organisation receive access to the resources of the platform (e.g. jobs board, recording of events, publications, blog, expert interviews) and virtual events. Our agenda can be viewed at this link.

You will receive access to all the Masterclass videos, expert interviews, bonus materials, publications, and white papers. You will join NEDonBoard as a Standard Member, gaining access to the platform to continue and deepen your learnings, expand your network, meet with professionals operating at board level and exchange in a safe and enjoyable environment.

One-year access to the Masterclass and 6-month NEDonBoard Standard Membership are included in the price.

More in-depth sessions with any of the course leaders, mentoring and coaching or in-house training can be organised but are not included in the price of the Masterclass. 

If you are looking to provide our board of directors training programmes to 3 or more board members, we will extend a discount to your organisation. Discounts are also available to NEDonBoard Group Members. Please email us at [email protected] or book a call with us at this link.