Board Competencies Results

• Q&A with Rick Lee and James Strong

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Dec 2012

  Rick Lee and James Strong discuss past and future challenges as Company Directors’ leadership baton is handed over. Rick Lee FAICDOutgoing chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Director (CD): What has given you the greatest satisfaction as c...

• Adding value to your membership

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  Extending the requirement for members to undertake professional development demonstrates our commitment to sound governance and directorship. As John Colvin highlights in his CEO Report in this edition, January 2013 marks the start of the foundation years of the extended requirements for...

• Skilling up for the Asian century

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  Christopher Niesche investigates how boards can gain the diversity of skills and experience to better tackle growing Asian markets. Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent, making up almost a third of the global land mass and with a population nearing four billion. Its...

• Strengthening your membership

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  John H C Colvin explains how Company Directors is responding to the increasing stakeholder expectations of directors and how membership requirements are changing. Our members who follow the news will no doubt agree that individual directors and boards are in the spotlight more than ever b...

• Building your director brand

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2012

  Zilla Efrat asks a range of experts for their top tips on how you can brush up on your directorship brand to secure your first or more board positions. Alison GainesGlobal Practice Leader – Board ConsultingGerard Daniels The best resumes for emerging and professional non...

• Fine-tuning your directorship career

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2012

  Domini Stuart investigates the pros and cons of having a mentor and what you can expect from the relationship. It seems Australian executives are well aware of the benefits of mentoring; the 600 surveyed for a recent report were generally enthusiastic, with some describing the experience ...

• Thinking outside the square

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Oct 2012

  Companies that fail to think creatively will find themselves at the back of the pack or out of business. Sam Walker discusses how their directors can help them become more innovative. The only constant is change, and change is taking place at a faster rate than ever before in our history,...

• Taking a shareholder onboard

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2012

  Tony Featherstone examines the pros and cons of giving a shareholder a seat around the boardroom table. There is only one way to describe Gina Rinehart’s push for Fairfax Media board seats: brutal. Since March, Rinehart has emerged as Fairfax’s largest shareholder, demanded three board se...

• Testing times ahead for junior mining directors

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2012

  Tony Featherstone warns that over the next 12-18 months, the directors of some junior miners could find themselves severely tested as they look to raise capital at a time when resource stocks may be out of favour and commodity prices are falling. Australia’s resource sector has had a forg...

• Preparing for NFP change

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2012

  A look at how the National Disability Services responded to change by providing a professional development scholarship program for NFP directors in the disability sector. The Australian not-for-profit (NFP) sector is large, diverse and growing. The Productivity Commission estimated that t...

• Scholarships for NFP directors

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Apr 2012

  How a unique corporate partnership has provided a national professional development scholarship program for NFP directors. Directors of charitable not-for-profit (NFP) organisations face challenges that are unique to their sector but no less pressing than those of the commercial sector, ...

• A framework for good director practice

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2012

  Introducing the Company Directors Corporate Governance Framework Developed in 2010/11 by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Corporate Governance Framework sums up the practices (skills, attributes and expertise) that comprise good director practice as demonstrated by respo...