Lawyers on Boards: Advance Your Career by Being Board Ready
Issues covered include: getting board ready, opportunities to be on a board, skills, 21st century boards
Description
Have you considered serving on a board and the many career-boosting benefits doing so can bring? Do you want to know how to improve your chances? Find out what skills you need and hear the tips and tricks you need to know straight from those who are in the know. Attend this seminar and start carving out a successful career serving on boards.
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 4 September 2019
Chair: Stephen Moss, Chairman, Symon Capital; Managing Partner, ECP Legal; Director and Founding Shareholder, Crowd & Co; Partner, Prime Financial Group Ltd; Chairman and Director, ODIN Institute; 2020 Council Member, Amnesty International Australia
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Why Would You Consider Going on a Board?
- Reasons to consider a board role
- 7 reasons why boards are good for your career
- Setting a plan: Where do you want to go?
- Pathways for lawyers
- Value proposition development: transferable skills exercise
- Steps you could take to get onto a board: deciding which board is right for you
- WOB Quiz exercise
- The tin-tacks: turning your professional profile into a board CV
- Mistakes to avoid
- Sample board CV
Presented by Ruth Medd, Executive Chair, Women on Boards
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Becoming Board-Ready When the Opportunity Presents Itself: Skills Required
- Learning to think strategically
- Governance: understanding and overseeing the skills, knowledge and experience, individually and collectively, relevant to the company
- Understanding and overseeing the delegation framework, including the role of board committees, the functions of each committee and monitoring management
- Risk: understanding risk in a much wider dimension than merely legal risk
- Investment: what you don’t know about investment
- Appreciating what makes a good board or committee paper including what should be included and not included and rolling subject matters through committees and then the board
- Lawyer or director: separating the roles of lawyer and director
Presented by John Edstein, Special Counsel, Walsh Bay Partners Pty Ltd; Senior Legal Consultant, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers; Non-executive Director, Macquarie Investment Management Limited (and chairman), Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited, Retail Employees Superannuation Pty Ltd (trustee of Rest)
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Serving on a 21st Century Board
Gain practical guidance that will assist you in getting ahead in the modern age of boards. Acquire the skills and strategies you need to be an effective board member and to leverage the position for your career.
Presented by Daniel Rod, Senior Solicitor, Spectrum Legal
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
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Secure Park 20 Bond Street - click here for rates
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