Cooperate Governance Course

Successful organizations recognize that all employees need to understand, contribute to, and align their efforts with the organization’s strategy.

This course is designed to enable delegates understand the role of strategic management towards the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage in the context of increasing uncertainty in local and global business environment. It focuses on the strategic challenges and their management in a 21st century context – in particular the impact of the changing global, technological and knowledge based economy on how organizations grow and sustain growth.

Corporate governance component of this program deals with the complex set of relationships between the corporation and its board of directors, management, shareholders, and other stakeholders. In the recent years, the regulators and legislators have intensified their focus on how businesses are being run.

Delegates will benefit from broad array of concepts relating to Strategic Management and Corporate Governance as well as key issues relating to Leadership, Change Management, Performance Management and Organizational Development, which puts across a comprehensive body of knowledge – a critical success factor – for today’s managers.

Course Objectives

On completion of the program delegates should be able to:

• Think ‘strategically’ about performance management and organizational development
• Understand the key challenges and ambiguities involved in strategic management
• Appreciate the roles of leadership, organizational structure, culture and change management in strategic management
• Understand how businesses interact with their environments and how managers can use this knowledge to improve firm performance
• Gain a good understanding of the corporate governance concept within the business and its environment
• Become familiar with the ongoing global best practices in corporate governance concepts
• Gain a new perspective of the impact of good corporate governance practices on ensuring the efficient management of a firm.
• Plan and implement strategic change in your department
• Develop a dynamic strategic plan
• Manage stress emanating from strategic change
• Plan to support strategic objectives
• Develop strategic and tactical departmental
• Plans that meet strategic objectives
• Maximize the use of resources.
• Use acquired skills to influence and win commitment
• Appreciate the process of developing strategic plans.
• Outline and discuss the key legal, political and economic features of the major corporate governance systems found around the world;
• Analyze how corporate governance systems influence performance, including both the performance of individual firms and the allocation of capital within a country;
• Discuss the evolution of diverse ownership and governance structures across different economies;
• Evaluate theories of the firm, and explain how they are relevant to the diverse range of ownership structures that exist in reality;
• Explain why the quality of corporate governance is relevant to capital formation
• Discuss the moral and social responsibility dimensions of corporate governance
• Describe why systematic failure of corporate governance can lead to failure of confidence that could spread from individual firms to entire markets or economies
• Understand the role and the responsibilities of the governing board of
• Understanding how board of directors in a modern corporate entity ought to act to prevent
• The role and responsibilities of the audit
• An understanding of internal controls, the roles and responsibilities of management, and critical monitoring activities such as internal
• Components of an effective compliance
• The roles and responsibilities of independent public accountants, counsel and regulatory bodies. Disclosure and

Andragogy.

The method of training for each module is highly participatory. And training sessions will include:

• Exciting practical group exercises,
• Role-plays
• Case studies
• Live instructions
• Video presentations
• Explicit practical examples

ü  PowerPoint presentations

  Course Outline

• General Management Concepts and Principles
• Corporate, business and functional strategy
• Strategic options and decision-making
• Strategic planning
• Leadership and change management
• Organizational strategy structure and culture
• Fundamentals of Strategic Management
• Public Speaking and Presentations
• Managing Projects
• Strategic Planning context and Concept
• Change Management
• Formulating a Robust Strategy
• Strategic Plan Implementation
• Action Planning
• Principles of Corporate Governance
• Corporations and Corporate Governance
• Corporate Takeovers: Mergers & Acquisition
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Executive and Non-Executive Compensation and Incentives
• Financial Controls, Auditing & Disclosure
• Corporate Takeovers: Mergers & Acquisitions
• Risk Management
• Role of Financial Institutions in Corporate Governance
• Corporate Social Responsibility

Way forward After the Training

Participants will develop a work plan through the help of facilitators that stipulates application of skills acquired in improving their organizations. ASPM will monitor implementation progress after the training.

Training Evaluation:

Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge knowledge and skills and another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.