New analysis from McKinsey indicates financially successful companies that integrate ESG priorities into their growth strategies outperform their peers

Profiling can help build a balanced and effective board.

Board succession planning is a means for an organisation to ensure its continued effective performance through leadership continuity.

The board should undertake a formal and rigorous annual evaluation of its own performance and that of its committees and individual directors.

Organisational structure refers to the way tasks are divided up, how the work flows, how this flow is coordinated and the forces and mechanisms that allow this coordination to occur.

Effective company directors and boards are key to the long term success of an organisation.

The effectiveness of boards of directors is crucial – and yet many boards lack effective processes. The application of good governance can radically improve performance.

New director development: for managers who think they ought to be directors and directors who still think like managers.

These programmes are provided as an indication of what can be provided. All programmes will be designed or adapted to meet the specific needs and requirements of clients.

Professionalism in the boardroom plays a key part in the prosperity of any organisation.

Increasingly, corporate social responsibility is seen as part of best practice by both investors and government

Non-executive directors (NEDs) are members of the board of directors without executive responsibilities in the company

Companies with a premium listing at the London Stock Exchange are required to report on how they have applied the Corporate Governance Code.

Corporate governance is about what the board of a company does and how it sets the values of the company.

Individual directors and the board should promote goodwill and support of shareholders and other relevant interested parties.

There is an increasing need to take account of the interests of stakeholders.

Directors primary duty is to the shareholders – to maximising shareholder value. However . . .

Ensure that senior management's successes and failures are communicated to them, and that appropriate rewards, sanctions and training are implemented.

Internal control includes financial, operational and compliance controls and risk management.

The Memorandum regulates the external affairs of the company; the Articles of Association regulate its internal affairs.

All business involves risk. Companies have limited liability but directors retain personal responsibility and potential liability.

Membership of a board of directors is a great privilege - but it is accompanied by risks and responsibilities.

Directors have a duty under law to act in good faith.

Description of the many roles and types of director.

The size and composition of a board of directors will influence its style.

Dictionary definitions of company director and a description.

As a director, you are responsible for obtaining the information you need to become as effective as possible in your new role within the shortest possible time.

Corporate social responsibility is defined by the European Commission as "the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society".

Family offices are concerned with the wealth of a family, not directly with the specific and various businesses that are being managed by the family.

The Good Business Charter was the idea of Julian Richer who is the initial funder and a trustee of the Good Business Foundation also.

The Business Roundtable redefines the purpose of a corporation to promote "An Economy That Serves All Americans"

Japanese companies in the 1980s were looked upon as the models for business innovation. Yet in recent years, the Japanese economy has experienced a spate of corporate scandals.

The Risk Coalition has published (4 December 2019) its principles-based guidance for board risk committees and risk functions in the UK financial services sector.

As we transition into a new decade there are trends that will be of increasing importance to boards. Some were apparent in the closing years of the 2010s and others are relatively new on the scene.