Our South East of England branch held a virtual CPD event on Monday 13 May 2024.
How can a training session entitled "Excellence in how we work" possibly make sense? Surely, we all do different jobs, in different types of organisations in different industries at different stages of our careers - so "excellence" is different for all of us?
Yes and no.
Of course, at one level we should be excellent in WHAT we do in our jobs - and this will indeed be very personal.
However, we can be excellent too in HOW we work - and this is not job or career-level dependent. And this is more often than not the dominant factor in how others view us in the workplace.
In this session, Nick Salmon was speaking through some training that he has been delivering and refining over 15 - 20 years based on observations from his career. This is totally practical training - ten slides of top tips broken down into broad themes, that we can all embrace in our daily working lives. No abstract "management-speak". Just lots of practical tips, illustrated by stories from real situations. He defies anyone not to walk away with something that they might do differently. Indeed, he says he particularly likes running this training as it's always a timely reminder personally to think about these issues.
The Event was provided for free and attendees earned 1.5 CPD points.
Speaker
Nick Salmon, Chief Operating Officer EMEA, White and Case LLP
Nick is part of the senior management team of business services leaders at White & Case. He has been the EMEA COO since 2013, prior to which he was the Asia COO for White & Case for 4 years and Asia COO for Linklaters for 5 years. He began his career in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, where he spent 10 years and qualified as a Chartered Secretary whilst acting as a compliance director and company secretary. Nick is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.
Nick is a frequent trainer in his firm, and is involved in training partners who are taking on senior leadership roles, newly promoted partners, other lawyers and business services colleagues – and brings an energy and humour to his training that can make most topics interesting.
Excellence in how we work slides
Excellence in how we work guide
This event took place on Wednesday 24 April 2024 at the CGIUKI Head Office, Farringdon, London.
Download the presentation slides Here.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is evolving and developing at an ever increasing rate, presenting both opportunities and threats to the way that business operates today and will operate tomorrow. The emergence into the mainstream of large language models, such as ChatGPT, has provoked a range of questions for business and society more generally, including the potential long-term impact of AI on business models, the workforce and wider society, and how and to what extent AI can and should be regulated. It also provokes a range of ethical questions, including how businesses might engage with stakeholders in future.
Boards need to debate these questions. But how is this best done? How can the Board set the right strategy and put the right metrics in place around AI and build the skills and competencies to perform its role effectively? And what role should corporate governance professionals play?
These questions were addressed by our expert panel, further details of which are set out below, followed by informal networking.
We're very grateful to ONE Advisory for sponsoring this event.
Speakers
This event took place on Monday 11 March 2024
Download the quick guide here.
Download the presentation slides here.
If you were asked to think of one of the best moments in your working life, would your mind immediately think of a recent meeting you attended? Probably not. As someone once said, meetings can be events where minutes are taken and hours are wasted. Meetings can, of course, be incredibly effective and useful – but have you ever stopped to think about what makes one meeting great and another terrible? What can you do before the meeting to give it a much better chance of success? What about during the meeting? And what about at the end of the meeting and afterwards?
Nick Salmon calculates that he has probably attended over 25,000 meetings in his career – some as a meeting secretary, many as a participant and a lot as a meeting chair. In this training, he has distilled what he has learned from his experience, combined with occasional insights from published research. The focus is almost exclusively on practical things we can do to make meetings better.
The training starts with things we should do before the meeting takes place. Topics that Nick canters through include: virtual vs. in-person vs. hybrid; good and bad agendas; papers; organising help; surprises; attendees; timings, length and location; and celebrating cancellations and early finishes.
Next comes the meeting itself – here Nick looks at the impact of: start times; energy levels; behaviour expectations; context; structure; inclusion; difficult participants; conflict; commitments; summaries
And finally, Nick looks at what to do afterwards to ensure the meeting is not a waste of time, and how to learn for the next time.
Speaker
Nick Salmon, Chief Operating Officer EMEA, White and Case LLP
Nick is part of the senior management team of business services leaders at White & Case. He has been the EMEA COO since 2013, prior to which he was the Asia COO for White & Case for 4 years and Asia COO for Linklaters for 5 years. He began his career in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, where he spent 10 years and qualified as a Chartered Secretary whilst acting as a compliance director and company secretary. Nick is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.
Nick is a frequent trainer in his firm, and is involved in training partners who are taking on senior leadership roles, newly promoted partners, other lawyers and business services colleagues – and brings an energy and humour to his training that can make most topics interesting.
Note that this is not a technical training on, for example, how to manage board meetings with specific duties. Rather, it is practical training of general relevance to the effective management of any type of meeting.
This event took place on Wednesday 15 December 2021
The South East of England Branch invites you to this virtual CPD event on Wednesday 15 December.
Our speaker, Simon Hodges, will discuss the role of the Company Secretary in their capacity as a leader, followed by a Q&A session.
We will also be discussing the branch in 2022 and what our members would like to see from the branch.
Speaker
We are expecting demand to be high for this session so register early to guarantee your place.
We look forward to seeing you there.
This event took place on 5 July 2021
Have you been meaning to upgrade from Grad to Associate, or have you been thinking it is time to reward your hard work and professionalism with an upgrade to Fellow? Maybe as a Grad you are wondering what extra benefits becoming chartered will offer you now you have passed your exams?
This session for members will cover the benefits of upgrading, the application process and the evidence required. The session will include an opportunity in smaller groups to do some networking and to hear from others who have gone through the process.
We are expecting demand to be high for this session so register early to guarantee your place.
Our speaker for this event is Vicky Hart, Chair of the South East Branch.
We look forward to seeing you there.
