# Directors' Duties and Board Effectiveness

> Understand directors' legal duties and build a high-performing board that adds strategic value.

- **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/directors-duties-and-board-effectiveness
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=directors-duties-and-board-effectiveness

## Overview

Directors carry significant legal responsibility, and boards that only review reports add little value. This course explains fiduciary duties and personal liability, the board's role in strategy, risk and oversight, and what distinguishes high-performing boards, from composition and diversity to dynamics, information and evaluation.

## Who should attend

- Directors and non-executive directors
- Newly appointed board members
- Board chairpersons
- Executives who report to boards

## Learning outcomes

- Explain directors' fiduciary duties and liability
- Contribute effectively to strategy and risk oversight
- Distinguish governance from management
- Improve board composition, dynamics and information
- Plan and act on board evaluations

## Course outline

### Module 1: Duties and liabilities

- Fiduciary duty and duty of care
- Business judgement rule
- Personal liability
- Conflicts of interest

### Module 2: The board's work

- Strategy and value creation
- Risk and internal control oversight
- CEO performance and succession
- Stakeholder accountability

### Module 3: High-performing boards

- Composition and diversity
- Board dynamics and culture
- Committees
- Board evaluation