Course outline

The Board of Directors is a place for discussion and debate between directors leading to collegial discussions. Interacting effectively with your peers requires mastering different behavioral qualities, known as soft skills.

Knowing how to adopt the appropriate postures for this very particular type of collegial work is crucial.

Having influence in a Board of Directors meeting requires mastering communication techniques to extract information, challenge constructively and lead with ideas. It also involves the ability to leverage the different expertise and experience from the other Board members.

This course gives the participant a communication toolkit of what to say, how to say it and when to say it in order to make incisive contributions to the discussion and move the debate forward.

Benefits of the course

At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:

• Position the discussion at a level appropriate for the Board
• Participate in Board meetings with a constructive posture
• Promote co-construction to reach collegial decisions with other administrators
• Build a collaborative relation with management

Acquired skills

• Extracting relevant information in meetings and navigate around cognitive bias
• Challenging constructively and effectively
• Leading with conviction when you are not convinced by other ideas  
• Leveraging and building on different ideas from other board members

Target audience

The course is targeted for board members, whether Non-Executive Directors or Executive Directors; as well as Aspiring Directors.

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INNSiDE by Meliá Luxembourg

12 Rue Henri M. Schnadt 

2530 Luxembourg - Luxembourg

Contact the organiser

Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs

[email protected]  | +352 26 49 58 5963