Successful boards work as a team. To be effective team members, directors must have the ability to work in a collective effort to implement the duties, powers and functions of the board. Board teamwork is not just about group synergy, it also incorporates being an effective governance unit, able to address the best interests of the organization. As boards work in a legal context, director teamwork includes shared risk and mutual obligation, therefore the performance of each director is vital to everyone’s interests. Many aspects of board teamwork are simple.  For example, if directors are going in different directions they will go nowhere together. Other issues directors face are more complex, such as overcoming differences and managing personalities whilst remaining a viable decision-making unit able to look after the interests of the organization.

Typically program content would include:

1. How to recognise good board teamwork
2. Which directors make good team players
3. What disrupts board teamwork
4. The building blocks of good board teamwork
5. Group dynamics under every day conditions
6. Group dynamics under pressure
7. The importance of avoiding acquiescence
8. The role of the chairperson in building board teamwork
9. The most common issues that arise in board teamwork and the solutions
10. Managing difficult people on the board
11. Succession planning that contributes to good teamwork

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