Key themes include: 

• Case study – analyse the board, it’s composition and talent and the basis of starting to build a future-proof model 
• Make recommendations on how the board needs restructuring 
• Consider how changes would be implemented 
• Prepare a list of reserved powers for the board, which is key to protecting future decision making 
• Why the best performing boards understand the crucial difference between what happens in a board meeting and a senior leadership team meeting 
• Developing board agendas and papers 
• Exercise – prepare an agenda for the board, including a senior leadership team agenda 
• Holding the board to account 

Key themes include: 

• Communicating with your stakeholders and building the reputation you need to survive 
• Making risk management work positively 
• Prepare a crisis communication plan to deal with a crisis (case study two) and present to the group 
• Preparation of a risk mitigation plan with explanations on why you have chosen these routes (case study two) 
• Preparation of risk register (case studies one and two) 
• Practical problem-solving session – using innovative problem-solving techniques in the board, to manage and harness conflict in the board and gain the company an advantage

Key themes include:  

• The investigatory journalists guide to reading and interpreting financial statements, using the Cool Pools Ltd case study 
• The practical ‘forensic’ guide to understanding the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and how financial statements can be legitimately skewed to hide the facts 
• An insight into this dynamic world and how to spot deals, critical deal-makers and breakers 
• Valuing a business using a Cool Pools Ltd case study 
• Exercise – building deal structures 
• How a deal process works – from issue to bid, due diligence, legal and completion 
• The business funding market: 
• Debt 
• Equity 
• Grants 
• Crowdfunding 
• Pros and cons and how to identify the right route 
• Deal covenants and management 

• Fundraising in a post-Covid world including exploring mergers, acquisitions and disposal market