SA Director
Issue No. 9 - February/March 2003
The New Director Program
by Rosanna McDonald
If you have been newly appointed to a board or are considering a board appointment you may wish to consider attending The New Director Program to be conducted in Adelaide on the 10th & 11th of March. Directors have a wide range of legal duties and responsibilities, which they need to understand (including monitoringfinancial performance), as well as ensuring their performance at board level is maximised.
Key concept of program
Will give directors who are new to directing an introduction to:
- some of the key legal responsibilities of being a director
- assessing the financial health of your company
- sourcing strategic input
- creating board effectiveness
What problems may a director have which the course solves?
likely participants:
- they may not understand their legal responsibilities
- they may not understand how to read and assess the financial performance of their company
- they may want to source better strategic input
- they may want to know how to work more effectively as a team
- they may want to improve their understanding of the principles of ‘good governance’
- they may want to mix with other directors to see how they operate
Likely participants?
- Theoretically new directors unsure about aspects of their role, but more experienced directors do also attend
- Directors of smaller companies especially private and not-for-profit companies
- Directors who are cur...
