Value Creation for Owners and Directors

Content Overview

The Value Creation for Owners and Directors programme develops both knowledge and actionable skills during four days of focused engagement. Our frameworks and tools enable you to pursue a more systematic, principled and disciplined approach to value creation.

The programme covers six essential topics as follows.

Ownership and director challenges

The five dimensions of owner and director challenges in the pursuit of value creation
Overcoming the hurdles to sustainable value creation

Leadership dynamics

Understanding owners and directors' biases and assessing how they negatively impact the value creation process as well as the link between ownership/family problems and firm and corporate issues
Addressing behavioural pitfalls that lead to wrong decisions of boards and managers and distort their interactions
The key principle of fair process leadership
The creation of mutual trust and commitment

Value creation

Understanding the different facets and meaning of value creation for owners, directors and managers
Relating financial value to Corporate Social Investment Policies and Impact investing
Identifying the key financial issues that your company faces in growing
Determining your goals
Developing a set of tools to screen corporate financial policies and growth plans

Managing risk and coping with disruption

Identifying key risk domains
Assessing the risk of obsolescence and how ownership and boards should cope with disruption
Developing an effective risk management strategy and process

Growth

Growth: the main source of value creation
The various strategic options for growth: organic growth, M&As, strategic alliances and international expansion
Insights to select the right strategy and ensure successful growth
Growth, continuous innovation and coping with disruption: an ownership/director's approach