Getting Serious I: Your Directorship Action Plan

The workshop is for people seeking individually tailored advice about industry sectors and boards they might target. Participants come away refreshed, empowered and with a clear action plan for targetting and achieving a board position within a set timeframe.

WOB recommends that participants have completed the Getting Started II workshop, have their board CV in reasonable shape and be actively looking at board roles.

From 2010 there will be a maximum of 12 people in each workshop who will be expected to have completed their preparation work.

Time: Three hours + pre-reading
Cost: $198 WOB Subscribers, $352 Non-Subscribers
Presenters: Ruth Medd (Chair WOB) and Claire Braund (Executive Director WOB) and a guest director
Catering: Tea and Coffee provided
What to bring: A list of two or three target boards with some background research.
Pre-reading: Materials are sent out five to seven days prior to the workshop.
Register: http://www.womenonboards.org.au/my/events/

Agenda

Market intelligence

  • Where are the opportunities?
  • Where are you at?
  • The WOB index

Putting you in the picture

  • Getting a board position - 101
  • Making your approach
  • Who you are & what you do
  • Your target sector and board

Developing your strategy

  • A facilitated discussion to develop a detailed, practical action plan for each participant.

Feedback

"A quick note to let you know that I thought the workshops are great – fantastic work!  I spoke to a few afterwards and they were filled with encouragement and more confidence to pursue their goals in being a director. Well done. "
Sandra D'Souza, NSW President Business and Professional Women Australia

 Here are some examples of next steps WOBers are taking:

  • I need a CV for Board positions not executive roles.
  • I need to work out what particularly to target.
  • I should organize coffee with attendee X who has offered to help me with an introduction to Y and she knows a lot about the company I am targeting.
  • I should send an email to WOB to organize an introduction to Z who is on the board of my target company
  • I need to do more research and then have a 1:1 session 
  • I should ask my nfp board Chair to consider paying directors.  After all, the turnover is $50m pa and they are running a substantial for profit/not for loss enterprise as an element of there NFP entity.