Continual Professional Development Opportunities for Company Secretaries in 2025
In the role of company secretary, staying ahead of the curve in 2025 is going to be important.
Continual professional development can be enormously rewarding and helps you prepare for greater responsibilities, boosts your confidence, up-skills you in terms of your approach to problem solving and directly impacts your career prospects.
The job of company secretary has developed significantly in the last few years, with an increasing emphasis on cyber governance, technology, and strategic management.
Fortunately, there are several professional development opportunities available for company secretaries in 2025 to enhance their skill sets, navigate new challenges, and maintain compliance in a dynamic corporate landscape.
The Chartered Governance Institute (CGI) offers a wide range of specialised training courses that company secretaries can leverage for their continual professional development (CPD).
Below are some of the many courses available in 2025:
1.‘Effective Minute Taking’
Date: March 20, 2025
An essential skill for all company secretaries, this course equips professionals with a toolkit to write and present accurate, clear minutes, ensuring effective board communication.
2. ‘Essential Corporate Governance’
Date: Tuesday 13th May
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into governance, this course explores how company secretaries can innovate within the secretariat while addressing potential challenges like privacy and security.
3. ‘Advanced Minute Taking’
Date: Tuesday 3rd June 2025
This one-day course is for those with experience of taking minutes who want to improve the quality and value of their minutes and to ensure they can be understood through a retrospective lens. You will learn tools and techniques to take high-quality, technical minutes in pressurised environments in which sensitivity, accuracy, speed, and ethics all add to the complexity, the role technology could play in supporting your approach and how to work together with key stakeholders to support the minute taking process.
4. ‘Deploying AI in the Secretariat: Masterclass’
Date: Friday 25 July 2025
This masterclass allows company secretaries and Board members to do a deep dive into AI, when looking at ways to use AI to innovate within the secretariat.
5. ‘Company Secretarial Practice for PLCs’
Date: Thursday 18 September 2025
This intensive course, delivered by experts, covers the essential knowledge and activities of the successful company secretary or governance professional in a PLC.
How to sign up for a CGI Training Course
These courses, alongside others offered by the CGI, provide company secretaries with the tools they need to thrive in the fast-evolving corporate governance environment.
Whether you are enhancing your understanding of diversity and inclusion, diving into the complexities of AI, or mastering minute-taking, there’s a training course designed to meet your professional needs in 2025.
For more details on these and other professional development opportunities, visit CGI’s upcoming courses https://www.cgi.org.uk/qualifications-training/training-courses/upcoming-courses/