Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Resources Kit

The Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Resources Kit provides a comprehensive set of materials and learning tools aimed at enhancing the role that directors play in their boards. It also provides approaches that they can use to ensure that boards and managers adhere to best practices. The emphasis throughout the training is on developing leadership and analytical skills.

The resources kit has a unique emphasis on training that maximizes the learning experience. Each module is designed to provoke discussion and debate and uses interactive strategies to enrich training for adult learners. By encouraging participants to draw on personal experiences, their development is reinforced by sharing knowledge and board room practices in a way that addresses the challenges that many directors face.

The kit comprises user and training guides, five curriculum modules, a case study that traces the evolution of a hypothetical company as it considers corporate governance reforms, and CD-ROMs with all of the content. Please click here to see the toolkit map, the training flow , and its content.


How to use this kit?

The Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Resources Kit serves the growing need for curriculum content and teaching methodologies to enhance corporate governance training provided by:

• Institutes of directors
• Corporate governance associations
• Professional bodies
• Universities and other educational institutions

The Global Corporate Governance Forum created this Resources Kit to strengthen the expertise and skills of corporate governance trainers. Through the training they provide, new and experienced directors can better understand their roles and the value of adopting corporate governance best practices.

Unique to this Resources Kit is its integration of interactive learning strategies that enrich a training session for adult learners. In each training module, there are activities that provoke discussion and debate. A case study traces the evolution of a hypothetical founder/family-owned company as it considers corporate governance reforms as part of its evolution towards becoming a public company.

Developed by experienced professionals in corporate governance, adult education, and corporate communications, this program's resources:

• Engage adult learners through interactive exercises that draw on the diverse, relevant experiences of training session participants
• Provide maximum flexibility through a modular curriculum, so that an institution can tailor programs to suit the needs of the directors it serves
• Minimize institutes' investment of their time and resources for curriculum development by providing a comprehensive, standardized curriculum that includes PowerPoint presentations and case studies to enhance the learning experience
• Advance corporate governance reforms by instilling in participants leadership values that can help them in working within their companies or organizations to adopt best practices
• Foster long-term relationships with those most likely responsible for implementing corporate governance best practices within the companies and organizations in which they work
• Enhance the training institution's brand and authority in the policymaking process to develop national corporate governance codes
• Encourage participants to be “change agents” of corporate governance by developing the knowledge and skills to build support within their boards for implementing best practices

For Case study background please click here.

For samples of the toolkit, please click here.

Leadership Kit Workshops

IFC Global Corporate Governance Forum began its worldwide rollout of the new product in Bangladesh, India, and Abu Dhabi. Through the multiday sessions, experienced trainers learn how to use the resources kit, while strengthening their skills for conducting interactive training sessions that seek to replicate the board room environment.

The Forum plans to support more regional faculty workshops involving leading corporate governance institutions. Upon successfully completing the previous workshops, participants will be invited to take mentoring roles in building local capacity for corporate governance leadership.

The Leadership Toolkit is not available on the website right now. For inquiry of the availability of the toolkit and the related information, please contact the Project Officer, Ms. Ghita Alderman at Galderman@ifc.org