Hold difficult conversations about board audit and risk committees early, while they are still small.
Establishing Audit and Risk Committees Within Boards of Directors
A senior-level treatment of board audit and risk committees, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The hardest part of board audit and risk committees is rarely deciding — it is holding the decision when it becomes unpopular. Managers are promoted for competence and then judged on risk committees, which nobody trained them for. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in this aspect of organisational leadership before they become incidents. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in board audit and risk committees that were visible long before the incident. Every module pairs a short input on this part of organisational leadership with structured practice on the participant's own material. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with risk committees. The programme converts board audit and risk committees from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Most organisations already have a policy on risk committees; far fewer can show it working. The final module sets out how progress on the wider organisational leadership agenda will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build the trust that makes candid feedback about risk committees possible.
Assign clear ownership for each element of board audit and risk committees across the functions involved.
Draw practical lessons from failures in risk committees without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.
Develop successors capable of running board audit and risk committees without you.
Read the informal dynamics that determine whether risk committees actually moves.
Set a realistic target state for board audit and risk committees and a defensible route to it.
Who Should Attend
Department heads and senior managers accountable for board audit and risk committees.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on risk committees.
Team leaders responsible for daily delivery of board audit and risk committees.
Project and programme managers whose success depends on risk committees.
Board members and non-executives overseeing board audit and risk committees.
Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of risk committees current.
Course Modules
Board audit and risk committees: resilience and the personal cost of leading
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving board audit and risk committees through people who do not report to you
- Identify your successor for board audit and risk committees and the gap they need to close.
- Set escalation thresholds for risk committees that work out of hours.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of board audit and risk committees current.
- Decide what you will delegate on risk committees and what you will not, and say why.
Session 2Recovering after a visible mistake on risk committees
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to board audit and risk committees will be introduced.
- Agree what will be standardised in risk committees and what will not.
- Test whether the team can explain board audit and risk committees in their own words.
- Remove steps in risk committees that add effort without adding assurance.
Risk committees: influence across functions you do not control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What your team concludes from how you handle risk committees
- Estimate the resource board audit and risk committees requires to run as designed.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for risk committees.
- Prepare how you will respond when board audit and risk committees is challenged publicly.
- Identify the conversation about risk committees you have been postponing, and schedule it.
Session 2Keeping risk committees alive after the initial push
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines board audit and risk committees.
- Establish the boundary of risk committees and record what sits outside it.
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on board audit and risk committees went unnoticed.
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on risk committees.
Risk committees: conflict, politics and informal power
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where risk committees typically breaks, and why
- Name the person accountable for each part of board audit and risk committees, not the committee.
- Set the review point at which risk committees will be reconsidered.
- Arrange the handover of board audit and risk committees so capability survives staff changes.
- Draft the minimum viable leadership plan for risk committees.
Session 2Holding the line on board audit and risk committees when it costs you
- Identify which function can quietly block board audit and risk committees and address it directly.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around risk committees are understood.
- State the outcome expected from board audit and risk committees in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
- Anticipate the objections risk committees will raise and prepare the answers.
Risk committees: performance, standards and consistency
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Saying the thing about risk committees that nobody wants to say
- Confirm that the people affected by board audit and risk committees heard it from you first.
- Set out the decisions in risk committees that require sign-off and by whom.
- Give one piece of specific feedback on board audit and risk committees within the week.
- Confirm that those complying with risk committees understand why it exists.
Session 2Getting other functions to support risk committees
- Agree the standard on board audit and risk committees and confirm it applies to everyone.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether risk committees is improving.
- Confirm that reporting on board audit and risk committees reaches the people who can act.
- Name a single owner for each element of risk committees.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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