So you want to be a Director?

Registration & welcome coffee

Welcome & Introductions

PART A -  What you need to consider when you want to be a Director? Introduction to certain legal aspects

1. Role and responsibilities Understand the key expectations of Directors

2. Director appointment 

3. Director resignation and succession planning

4. Independence - from Independence of mind from constructive challenge to dealing with complexities, dilemmas and conflicts, and managing the pressures of independent thinking

5. Insolvency & director impacts / liabilities

6. GDPR and privacy obligations of Directors

7. UBO Registers

8. KYC/AML

9. Confidentiality, Insider trading, market abuse

Coffee Break

Part B - Well then, what next? Setting yourself up as a Director

1. Personal strategy 
   

2.  Risk management
   

3. Thoughts on joining with others:  Standing alone vs.  director groupings

4. Registrations
   

5. Managing documentation

Lunch break

PART C - Up and running - Daily management and other on-going considerations

1. Accounting

2. Taxation

3. VAT 

4. Social Security & Pensions

5. Thoughts on whether or not to set up a company

Coffee break

PART D - Positioning yourself for success

1. Social Media basics

2. Negotiating skills, constructive challenge & positioning for power

3. Continuing professional development

4. Certification schemes

Concluding thoughts - Q&A

Closing of the course