Tired of those same old boring governance training programmes? We use fun, our unique sense of humour, and our experience with training over 105 Māori organisations to empower your trustees to feel confident, capable and ready to make the right decisions to turn your vision into action

“I really enjoyed the courses, and they’ve had a really positive effect on all our members. They were able to clarify roles and gave good strategic guidance. Now we hear the lessons being brought up and people have adopted the terms. Every single person has said ‘we got value out of this’”

— John Dobson, Ngāti Koata Trust

WHAT DO WE DO?

Our Governance Training programmes focus on the key areas of governance that your governance team need to improve to ensure better governance and sustainability of your organisation.

The training empowers your trustees to feel confident, capable and helps get a focus on making the right decisions to transform your vision into action.

We are experienced in shifting mindsets and addressing underlying tensions and politics inside Maori Trust teams. We help solve the real issues and we often understand your problems as well as you do.

We bridge the gap to business, and are experts at developing business models, testing assumptions for commercialisation, and leading strategies inside organisations.

Our team will resonate with you more than any other training provider. Our facilitation is fun and enjoyable, but is serious about making a difference. There is a proven correlation between fun and learning.

*Our team ensures that Governance training is not only informative, it's fun!*

What Content do we cover?

Our governance workshops are personalised to your trust. We do this by first completing a comprehensive Governance Review with your team to figure out exactly what you need to know in order to get the best results from the time that we spend with you.

The content that we cover is a combination of the lessons we have learned from helping more than 110 Maori organisations as well as governance best practice. Topics that we generally cover are:

Meetings - how to make them more effective to get the mahi done properly.
Roles and Responsibilities - knowing your role as an individual board member and as a board overall.
Strategic Thinking - the key components of great strategy to get clear on where you're going and how you'll there.
Measuring and Monitoring - how to track your progress towards your vision and know when you're off track.
Risk Management - ensuring you have an effective process to determine and analyse risks to keep the organisation safe.
Communication - how to have brave conversations, address conflicts of interest, and ensure everyone is paddling the waka together.

Who is THIS for?

Primarily this is for governance boards with leaders who are frustrated with the lack of progress in their trust and the lack of outcomes for their whanau. However, a large number of our clients are skilled, longtime trustees that are simply looking for new innovative techniques or opportunities to improve or sharpen their toki.

DoES TE WHARE HUKAHUKA RUN TRAINING FOR INdividuals?

This governance programme is for full Maori trust boards rather than individuals. We do have our Ka Eke Poutama programme and Ka Hao programme for individuals.

In our overnance programme we prefer to work with the entire board, chair and CEO together. This is proven to create the greatest improvement in governance and leadership. It means that everyone is part of the process and comes away with a shared understanding of the collective and individual responsibilities of governance and management.

We have worked with individuals in the past. And we found that they would learn some new things and then go back to the board and face the uphill battle of trying to implement their new knowledge with resistance from the rest of the organisation. Lasting and effective change comes from getting the entire board involved in the transformation process.

DURATION

Our workshops usually run for the full day (9.30am - 4pm), with a mix of group learning and activities. This can be adjusted to fit your requirements.

We recommend that we start with undertaking a comprehensive Governance Review to determine the areas to focus on in the training, and then engaging in two Governance training workshops with your board to cover the key concepts of governance. Following the workshops we recommend coaching sessions to help you implement the changes into your board.

WHERE IS IT HELD?

Our governance training comes to you.

Our facilitators and team can either travel to your location to make it easier for your trustees to participate, OR we can run the training sessions online.

PRE-REQUISITES

None! We can cater to people at all stages of their governance journey - from o background through to experienced. We ask that you bring an open mind, a willingness to learn and a readiness to participate and implement the learning in your board.

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I'VE DONE GOVERNANCE TRAINING BEFORE, SO WHAT MAKES Te whare hukahuka ANY DIFFERENT?

Our Maori team have worked with more than 1,000 Maori leaders and 110 Maori organisations. We have a tribe of raving fans. No one else has the same breadth of knowledge of Maori Trusts as we do. We understand your challenges and we know how to help solve them.

We share our insights and case studies with you to help you succeed. Our team is passionate about improving the wellbeing of Maori communities and this comes across in the work that we do.

If you commit to being open to new knowledge and implementing the learning, we guarantee that our training will help your team solve common challenges, reduce risk, and improve your ability to grow and innovate so you can provide better outcomes for your organisation and community.

Our Te Whare Hukahuka team have won multiple national and international awards, including being acknowledged by Forbes magazine, Obama Foundation, ACE Awards, Impact Awards, Matariki Awards, and as finalists in the NZ Innovation Awards 2016 and 2017.