Training, mentoring & professional development with Virteffic
Virteffic provides practical learning and development opportunities through three key service areas, designed to support governance professionals, directors, and wider business teams at every stage of their journey.
- Training courses – Covering minute taking, governance, board leadership, remote working, and digital practice, with content grounded in real boardroom experience.
- One-to-one and small group mentoring – Tailored support for governance professionals and new directors, focused on confidence, judgement, and practical application.
- Professional presentations – Engaging and informative sessions for conferences, internal events, and industry groups.
Alongside our learning services, we continue to support organisations with minute drafting, company secretarial support, governance consultancy, and short-term secondments that strengthen and reinforce in-house teams.
Whether you are looking to upskill your governance team, support new board members, or bring fresh expertise to an event, our sessions provide practical guidance delivered in a calm, relatable, and supportive way.
Professional guidance shaped by real experience to support individuals & teams at every level.
Presentations
Tess Price regularly present at industry conferences, corporate events and professional forums. Presentations cover governance trends, boardroom behaviour, minute-taking practice and insights from working inside real boardrooms. Each session can be tailored to your audience and theme. Read more and book a speaker
Training courses
Our courses focus on governance, minute-taking, statutory responsibilities and the practical skills needed to operate confidently in regulated environments. Sessions use real scenarios and examples from our day-to-day work with boards and committees. Training can be delivered as open courses or tailored in house workshops aligned with your internal governance framework. View our training courses
Mentoring
Our mentoring programmes support individuals at every stage of their professional journey. Sessions are confidential, supportive and shaped around your goals, whether you are building skills, developing confidence or navigating a new role. We provide structured feedback, practical examples and personalised guidance to help you develop consistent, high quality work. Explore mentoring options
Governance insight in practice
Virteffic works with organisations across the Channel Islands to deliver practical, experience‑led governance and minute‑taking training. We design and deliver engaging presentations and tailored workshops that support boards, governance teams and professionals at every stage of their careers. Clients can choose from established courses covering minute‑taking, board effectiveness and corporate governance, or request bespoke sessions shaped around their organisation’s needs.
Tess and the team combine strong technical knowledge with real‑world insight gained through weekly attendance at board and committee meetings. Our approach is professional, clear and grounded in lived experience, helping participants understand complex requirements and apply practical tools with confidence.
Training often includes topics such as minute‑taking, corporate governance, company secretarial responsibilities, director duties and regulatory expectations. Visit our training page for our full course library.
Examples of previously delivered public courses
Our ongoing client work provides valuable visibility into board dynamics, oversight standards and the practical realities of governance. Clients value Tess’s ability to bring calm structure to complex environments and to balance robust governance standards with commercial awareness.
Enhancing board efficiency, organisation and performance
🤝 Collaboration with CGI | 🌐 View session
📍 Corporate Governance 2024 Conference, St Pierre Park Hotel, Guernsey
Tess Price shares practical insights drawn from her experience supporting multiple boards across the Channel Islands, highlighting how small adjustments in process and preparation can have a significant impact on efficiency and decision-making.
Advanced Minute Taking
🤝 Collaboration with SIFS | 🌐 View presentation
📅 23 September 2025, 3:30–4:30 PM BST (Online)
A live online webinar providing practical strategies to prepare, structure, and draft clear, accurate minutes while avoiding common pitfalls and adding strategic value to board and committee records. Includes a line-by-line review of example minutes and offers 1 hour of recognised CPD.
Maximising Efficiency, Organisation and Performance of Your Board
🤝 Collaboration with the NED Forum | 🌐 View course
📍 The Harry Bound Room, Les Cotils, St Peter Port, Guernsey
This session focused on improving board effectiveness, decision-making, and collaboration. Co-speaker Tess Price shared insights on how board members can support the company secretary to maximise efficiency and good governance.
Advanced Minute Taking
🤝 Collaboration with Pronumeris | 🌐 View course
📅 26 August 2025, 1:00–4:00 PM BST (Online)
Designed for experienced professionals, this course explores advanced techniques in preparation, active listening, drafting, and adapting to complex meeting types. Through real-world examples and open discussion, participants will learn how to minute strategically and refine their work with confidence. MQA approved and HRDC refundable.
Start the conversation
If you would like to discuss training options, design a tailored development pathway or book a speaking engagement, the Virteffic team will be happy to help.
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Flexible governance resource, corporate governance and company secretarial support.
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Our services
We provide flexible governance resource for boards and governance teams, combining experience, structure and practical delivery.
Minutes and meeting management
Company secretarial support and secondments
Independent board effectiveness reviews
Virteffic Limited (Virteffic) is not regulated or licensed under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998, as amended, and does not provide regulated financial services. Where regulated services are required, clients should engage an appropriately licensed service provider. Virteffic provides governance, company secretarial, board support, administration and related professional support services. Any work undertaken by Virteffic is provided in a support capacity only. Responsibility for reviewing, approving and implementing any work product remains with the relevant directors, company secretary, officers or authorised representatives of the client.