What are the benefits of the IoD's Certificate in Company Direction?The programme will provide you with a robust and up to date set of strategic thinking models, frameworks and tools that you can directly apply to enhance your organisation's performance. We will also help you to develop your own personal roadmap to enable you to drive strategic initiatives and inspire your people to follow.
In short the programme will give you time and space to consider your goals and further develop the ability to lead your business through turbulent times.
What will you gain?
- A full understanding of your director's legal duties and liabilities and what this means to you and your business.
- Access to up to date knowledge of boardroom best practice.
- Discover how to unlock the power of the board and enhance effective decision making.
- Learn how to clearly navigate through ambiguity, uncertainty, risk and complexity, while evaluating new opportunities and threats.
- Increase your personal confidence in your ability to lead people and move them to new levels of capability.
- Discover how to clearly see the bigger picture and avoid becoming lost in the weeds of myopic day to day management.
How will this programme benefit your business?
We help you to enhance your leadership skills and prepare you to both meet the challenges of today and drive the agenda for tomorrow. High performing businesses need leaders who are effective thinkers and doer's, people who firstly know what needs to be done and how to do it.
The business will have leaders who have:
- a greater awareness of the trends and movements in themacro and micro business environment
- the capability to think at a strategic level and see the big picture so that they can seize the initiative and grasp more business opportunities.
- the understanding of the practical application boardroom financial tools and measures to strategically enhance business performance
- a clear and critical awareness of value creation and how it can be used to manage customer relationships.
This executive programme is designed by directors for directors and focus on the essential skills 'directors' need to lead, drive and transform their business.
The programme is ideal for directors, senior executives, entrepreneurs, owner managers drawn from private or public sector, family businesses, non-profit organisations through to multi-nationals. This wide diversity is one of the main strengths of the programme.
Directors Role in Leading the Organization
- Create a culture which engages others constructively in the organisation in order to achieve the strategic objectives which add value to the company and to its customers
- Understand what is actually needed to deliver a successful strategy in terms of decision making, alignment of resources and people development
- Develop effective methods for implementing strategies or strategic change as an individual leader and as a member of an executive team
- Align performance monitoring with the need to remain innovative as a means of driving continuous improvement and keeping key stakeholders engaged in taking the organisation forward
Role of the Director & the Board
- Examine the board’s corporate governance role
- Appreciate the crucial differences between management, direction and ownership
- Analyse the role of the board and identify good practice in the organisation and running of the board
- Understand the roles directors play and key director relationships in different types of company and context
- Formulate effective risk management strategies
Director’s Role in Strategy & Marketing
- Understand what strategy is and how a board uses it to generate value
- Appreciate the strategic importance of a clear purpose as provided by vision, mission and values, and effective strategic thinking
- Understand strategic analysis is essential to successful strategy formulation and implementation
- Understanding the importance of strategy and marketing in generating value
- Obtain an overview of risk and measurement with respect to strategy implementation
Finance for Non-Financial Directors
- Identify the financial role and responsibilities of directors
- Interpret financial statements in accordance with accounting principles and standards
- Establish the financial health of a business using accepted financial ratios
- Distinguish between management accounts and the statutory financial reports of a company
- Differentiate between the various sources of finance available to a company and their relative advantages and disadvantages
- Interpret the key components of capital investment appraisal
Fees The IOD Company Direction Certification Programme fees are €4,600.
No VAT is charged due to CIIM’s VAT exemption status. Fees include tuition materials, refreshments and executive lunches. The balance of the fees is payable upon enrollment. For cancellations less than 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the course the cancellation fee is €600.
In order for you to complete your Certificate in Company Direction Programme you will need to take your Examination. Please note that the examination date is the 20th June 2012. The examination will be conducted on-line.
For further information concerning the IoD programme please contact the Executive Education Team at CIIM.
Tel: 22462246
Email: execedu@ciim.ac.cy
Examination Fee:
This is paid direct to the IoD when registering for the examination. Full details will be given to delegates during the programme.
- Certificate Examination: £310 +VAT
