Learning Resources for Directors, Managers and Governance Professionals
These resources are pdf products that you can purchase and immediately download.
Some are for personal use, some for trainers and some for teams to use on away days and corporate retreats.
Books and courses for directors, boards and teams
Books
Books continue to be the most popular way of learning. You can buy some books direct from us, some from amazon.
When you buy from us you immediately receive a link to a download version. Books are then despatched post free (including internationally) by UK Royal Mail.
Aspiring Director's Foundation Pack
How to prepare for your role as a director and ensure you become more confident, more competent, more quickly.
Comprehensive information pack covering fundamental knowledge, how to become a director, what to do when offered a directorship - and whether to accept.
The Virtual Board Meeting
Check the rules and best practice for running your board meetings online.
This training simulation has been designed for directors, secretaries and senior managers to practise vital meeting skills, with the additional challenge of being physically separated.
Imperial plc in-tray exercise
This in-tray simulation tests individuals' people management skills in a "real-world" scenario where they are forced to sift through a complex mountain of information and make difficult decisions under pressure.
It is available in two editions - for use by individuals and for companies to license.
The Zoom Meeting
The Zoom meeting is a real-time learning exercise to teach meetings skills in a virtual meeting scenario. Additional features include: handling redundancies and pros and cons of a home-working strategy.
Can form part of a facilitated training programme or be self-administered by the team.
A Manager's Introduction to Coaching
This comprehensive resource pack for trainers, coaches, managers, and HR professionals who want to introduce managers to the basics of coaching is suitable for a full day or half day 'Introduction to Coaching' workshop.
New Ideas Toolkit
This toolkit for managers and trainers includes 20 pages of tools ranging from classic brainstorming to morphological matrices and beyond.
Each tool comes with clear instructions on how to use it along with suggestions for timing, materials and when it might be suitable.
Rigger - a team construction game
This game can be used to help teams understand skills, behaviours and techniques that work in a high pressure situation.
It aids communication and learning about managing practical problems. It is useful for drawing out the differences between managing a project and managing routine work.
Space Ship Shortlist
This game can be used to teach decision making or negotiation skills, or to investigate attitudes to diversity and challenge stereotypes. It has been designed to alert participants to the danger of allowing prejudice and emotion to get into the way of negotiating a logical decision.
It can be played at several levels of emotional involvement.
Hollow Square
This game can be used to help teams understand the impact of communication between those who develop plans and those who have to implement them.
It also highlights helpful and not so helpful behaviours when planning, assigning or completing tasks.
Prisoners' Dilemma
The Prisoners' Dilemma is a well known trust game which helps teams understand about working together for a win-win outcome.
It isolates the components of trust and demonstrates the concept of win-win to bring greater understanding of the processes involved in building, maintaining, losing and regaining trust.
Making It Happen
This 33 page guide and workbook is for those who would like to find the easiest and most enjoyable way to make their goals happen.
It contains practical exercises and useful advice designed to help you find your motivation, overcome procrastination and begin to make your future into reality.
Technical Papers and Templates
Guidelines for the Appointment of Investment Directors
The job of an investment director is to represent the interests of a significant shareholder in a company.
Their first duty of care is to this company, whilst still representing the interests of the investor. This can lead to potential conflicts of interest.
Job Description for Appointment of a Company Chairperson
A company chairperson acts as the company's leading representative to the outside world.
They are responsible for strategic matters, setting high governance standards and ensuring decisions meet legal and regulatory requirements.
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