The Institute of Directors Nigeria (IoD) has commenced an Advanced Company Direction Programme (ACDP) in London, which is aimed at raising corporate growth beyond borders.
President and Chairman of the Governing Council, IoD Nigeria, Tijjani Borodo, said the edition of ACDP was coming at the most auspicious time, given the multifaceted challenges confronting the boards of agencies and corporations globally.
He enjoined the participants to be open as they learn, unlearn, relearn and reskill to improve capacities, exposures and knowledge to mitigate the challenges.
He stressed that the programme, which is the institute’s flagship board education programme, offered in modules, is aimed at aiding delegates with learning taken in real-world approach and raising corporate growth beyond borders.
He said its faculty members are experienced global corporate governance practitioners, who have wide-ranging boardroom experience and deploy adaptive approaches to meet varying delegates’ requirements.
Borodo stressed that the ACDP syllabus covers key areas considered to be important in enhancing directors’ strategic views and decision-making capability across the key functions of an organisation.
These, he said, include board leadership and governance; finance and business risk; strategic business direction; current trends in governance; ethics and governance, as well as board dynamics.
The three-day programme, which is held yearly in Europe and the UAE, attracted directors from the private and public sectors of the economy.
Meanwhile, the institute has designed innovative programmes that provide a framework for recognising and enhancing the skills and experience of directors across various sectors of the economy.
Director General/Chief Executive Officer of IoD, Dele Alimi, said this at the end of a three-day North America Board Governance Summit in Ontario, Canada, which had the theme, ‘The Chair, the CEO and Leadership Responsibilities.’
Noting that the IoD has been instrumental to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy, he said the institute has evolved to meet the changing needs of the business world through avenues such as the summit.
He said the summit, which was unanimously adjudged ‘impactful’ by participants with a richness of contents and practicality of delivery methodologies, among others.
According to him, delegates departed with plans of action to translate the learning into actions on their boards as they reinvent their boards, management practices and leadership pipelines across all operational levels in their organisations.
Delegates were represented by the Central Bank of Nigeria, First Trust Mortgage Bank Limited and Shell Nigeria Closed Pension Fund, among others.
