Raffles Legacy Learning
Effective Governance
Addressing Board Structure, Composition, Leadership and Performance — the practices that turn governance from compliance into competitive advantage.
Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.
Mervyn King
Author, The King Reports on Corporate Governance
Fully onlineSelf-pacedOn demandEstimated duration 6–8 weeks
Course overview
Studies have shown the correlation of good governance with better decisions, stronger financial performance, and more effective risk management. In a legacy family and its businesses, governance is one of the strongest disciplines you can install.
This Core course gives you a working understanding of the purpose, principles and practices that lead to effective governance of your family enterprise — whether you are putting a new system in place or upgrading an existing one to a higher standard. It addresses board structure, composition, leadership, and performance — with practical tools for each.
Who will benefit from this course
For those who sit on, serve, or shape the family board.
The journey you will take
Seven steps. One complete governance system.
By the end of the course you will have the working framework for an effective board — covering structure, composition, leadership, and the practices that make it actually function.
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Module 01
Supporting course materials
Everything you will get from us to succeed in this course.
Course instructors
What you create here
Better decisions. Stronger performance.
Effective risk management.
By the end of this course you will have the working framework for an effective board — covering structure, leadership, agenda, and the assessment practices that make a governance system actually function.
Structure & composition
The architecture of governance — board purpose, composition, committee structure, and the disciplines that make board meetings produce real outcomes rather than ritual ones.
Leadership & performance
The board at work — agenda-setting, strategic oversight, communication with the wider family, and the assessment forms that drive constant improvement of the board, chair and individual directors.
In a legacy family and its businesses, good governance — especially with experienced, independent-minded non-family members — can act as a substitute for some of the disciplines of exposure to public capital markets.
Build the board that endures
Install the governance discipline that protects your family enterprise — and turns it into a source of better decisions, not just better minutes.
CHF 2,500
Get it now →Enrollment is open year-round. Access to the CourseBook and templates is immediate.