Board Membership
New Professional Director?
Vinderstrategi A/S is focused on spreading and developing professional boards, and takes the term ”professional board” seriously. The use of the title ”professional director” in the media has become increasingly commonplace among CEOs and managers who offer their services as members of corporate boards.
Despite the frequent use of the term, only a few have ventured specific explanations of what professionalism means in the boardroom. Vinderstrategi A/S has a clear idea of what it should mean.
We focus on the three main tasks for which boards are responsible:
- Ensuring that the company has a solid strategy – and the right solid strategy
- Ensuring that the right resources are available to make the strategy succeed. Primarily in relation to cash flow and human resources
- Ensuring that top management and the board stay within the law
However, a board member can, in our opinion, only truly be considered professional if he or she:
- Is contractually employed and therefore sees the work on the board as a passion and as an important responsibility
- Is sharp when it comes to developing a strategy for the company – also when it comes to implementing the strategy in the whole organization
- Is able to contribute with professional experience from other companies, other industries, own top management positions and board posts
- Is ambitious, brave and strong-willed, regardless of the degree of success experienced by the company – and has good manners
- Is conscious of where and how the board adds value for the company – including focus on individual goals and success criteria
- Continues to pursue professional development by, for example, self-development and self-evaluation.
- Has a strong professional network that can be drawn on when necessary
- Understands a set of tools appropriate for the boardroom – and knows how to use them in practice
- Has relevant personal, professional and social competencies – and is able to use them in the boardroom
- Is able to provide top managers with new perspectives on and inspiration for their work
Three Roads to Winning Boards
If you need a professional director, who also proactively can advise the CEO, top management and/or the board, then Vinderstrategi A/S is the natural choice, ensuring that your board will be an asset to the company.
When a company aspires to improve the work of its board, we base our work on three services, all intended to professionalize the board.
These three board services are:
What Can You Expect?
Together we put strategy on the agenda of the board and together we take the company forward.
We offer:
- Collaboration with a board member who has extensive practical executive experience – and thorough understanding of the relevant theoretical tools
- Collaboration with an experienced board member and chairman, who can develop, plan and execute ambitious strategies
- A consistency and sequentiality in all strategic activities and communicable milestones with follow-up along the way
- Access to extensive experience in strategy and business development, management, sales and communication, a large network, execution and purchase or sale of companies
- Collaboration with a person who thinks positively and sees new possibilities in every change
- Practical executive experience and experience from more than 200 strategic change projects, either as the responsible member of management or as a strategic sparring partner
- Theoretical experience as external lecturer in strategy at a Business School with one of the most comprehensive toolkits of strategy and management models
- Effective risk management
… and expect in return:
- Good behavior – that the company acts decently in all its interactions with employees, partners, owners, suppliers and society in general
- That the company is ambitious – and has the will to push ahead
- Alignment of interests – to as great an extent as possible
- Openness about all relevant issues and internal relations
- Continuous evaluation of the board
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