# Corporate Governance and Board Effectiveness

> Apply good governance principles, including King IV, to strengthen boards and accountability.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Governance, Risk & Compliance
- **Duration:** 3 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/governance-risk-compliance/corporate-governance
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=corporate-governance

## Overview

This course covers governance principles and codes, board roles and composition, committees, ethics, stakeholder relationships and governance of state-owned entities, with case studies of governance failures and recoveries in Africa.

## Who should attend

- Board members and directors
- Company secretaries
- Executives
- Governance and compliance staff

## Learning outcomes

- Apply King IV and governance principles
- Clarify board and management roles
- Run effective board committees
- Oversee ethics, risk and compliance
- Evaluate board performance

## Course outline

### Module 1: Governance principles

- King IV and other codes
- Fiduciary duties
- Board vs management
- SOE governance

### Module 2: Effective boards

- Composition and independence
- Committees
- Board papers and meetings
- Board evaluation

### Module 3: Ethics and oversight

- Ethical leadership
- Risk and compliance oversight
- Stakeholder inclusivity
- Case studies