GOVERNANCE TRAINING

OPTIONS FOR MĀORI ORGANISATIONS

We provide tailored governance support for a range of Māori organisations. Including iwi and hapu, Māori land trust, hauora, and community organisations.

What do we do?

We have developed our governance support alongside hundreds of Māori organisations and tested our approaches over the past 10 years.

We have found that great governance can be boiled down to six key areas.
When these are done well boards are effective, efficient and highly impactful.

We have refined our training based on the few things that make the greatest difference and by seeing what the best performing Māori organisations are doing, and drawing on their examples. This weaves together mātauranga Māori, tikanga, and ‘best practice' governance’.

We help alleviate tensions, shift mindsets and align thinking amongst board members to address the real issues that you experience.

Whatever you are facing as a board, we’ve seen it before!

Who do we work with?

We partner with Māori organisations and help you make consistent improvements each month across a range of governance areas including role clarity, policy,
sub-committees, strategy, measurement, risk management, meetings and communications. These improvements compound over time to lift the governance experience.

Board members are busy. We believe in consistency and momentum rather than cramming, forcing and rushing. By working together each month, we maintain momentum, reduce overwhelm, and ensure key lessons remain top of mind.
This increases the value you get for your investment.

Whether you are frustrated with a lack of progress or are seeking new and innovative ways to improve and create impact for whānau we will help take your governance to the next level.

Our team has worked with more than 400 Māori organisations over the past 12 years, training more than 2,000 Māori leaders across Aotearoa.

If you are seeking to address critical governance challenges or take your governance to the next level we can work alongside you to do this.

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What content do we cover?

Our governance support is personalised to your board based on the most critical governance areas to address. We assess 100 different parts of your governance through an initial Governance Review, and from there we agree on the areas of your governance to focus on.

Below are the most common areas of governance that we provide for boards over the course of a year:

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensuring clarity around the different roles, structure and accountability for actions, as well as the policies and tools that support good decision-making.

Allocating actions to roles in the organisation
Formal position descriptions
Delegated authorities
Board Committees & Terms of Reference
Board Charter and a full set of policies
Board skills matrix to assess composition, skills, diversity, alignment and key gaps
Board and mgmt Performance reviews
Trustee inductions
Advisory boards
Remuneration advice
Board annual calendars

MEASURING & MONITORING PROGRESS

Tracking your journey to inform your strategy and check that your board and management team are still on course to reach your vision.

Clear goals and measurements (including SMART, end goals)
Key performance indicators (KPIs)
What to monitor as a board
Measurement dashboard
Tools to help monitor progress
Quality and transparency of financial reporting

MEETINGS

Tips on how to prepare and run effective meetings that involve board members, focus on governance matters, and arrive at clear decisions and board resolutions.

Board meeting preparation
Board information reporting and processes
Board meeting structure and agendas
Board resolutions and minutes
Board member engagement and contribution in meetings
Chairperson’s role in meetings
Board meeting frequency, structure, focus and efficiency

RISK MANAGEMENT

Keeping your board safe by ensuring a robust risk management framework to track, mitigate and manage risks as they arise.

Awareness of 12 main types of risk that affect organisations
Specific risk affecting your organisation
Implementing a Risk management framework and processes
Risk Register tool
Key questions around dealing with risks
Legal and regulatory requirements

Frequently asked questions

STRATEGIC THINKING

Setting strong foundations for the future through utilising strategic frameworks. Providing clear direction and alignment between the vision and priorities of your board and the activity and resources of your operations team.

What great strategy involves
Strategy frameworks to utilise
The Board’s role in strategy
Decision-making framework for projects
Key priorities in place
Strategic Direction & Planning Policy
Statement of Strategic Direction
Strategic Plan and Operations Plans
Types of internal strategies to have in place
Key questions to ask in strategy
Investment Strategy
SIPO document for investments
Business model analysis
Entrepreneurial principles to increase the chances of success

COMMUNICATIONS

Ensuring the internal and external communications are clear, mana-enhancing and strong enough for everyone to feel well informed, safe, and on the same page.

Board-Operations relationship
Brave conversations and mana-enhancing discussions
Giving and receiving feedback
Conflicts of interest processes
Clarity of key stakeholders
Stakeholder engagement processes with partners and whānau
Formal communications systems
AGM support

This depends on the needs of your board. The most effective governance support is where we support your board each month to learn and implement improvements, through a mix of workshops, coaching sessions, independent reviews, tailored guidance, or providing templates and tools for your board to use.
We focus on partnering with Māori organisations and develop governance over the long-term.
For kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) sessions, we will come to wherever your board members meet, and travel to you.
We often run sessions online (e.g. short coaching sessions with the board and sometimes half day workshops). We can organise and facilitate the Zoom links for your board.
There are no pre-requisites to beginning a conversation. Our team are here to support you, even if just to offer some tips.
We cater to boards at all stages of their governance journey, and area able to assist with putting in place foundations, through to assisting with advanced strategic and performance reviews.
If your board is seeking to make improvements, we are able to help. All we ask is that you bring an open mind, a willingness to learn, and a readiness to implement the learning in your board. And of course that you’re able to contribute towards the costs.
Some of our governance clients have been able to get funding support. Usually they come to us with funding or a budget already organised.
Our team are also able to connect you with potential funders if your organisation requires this.
And if we can see your organisation is committed, we will invest into the cost of the governance support too.
Our team has worked with more than 400 governance boards, and we are used to the objections that come up.
We are able to provide you with a tailored proposal that you can share with your board, and can call into your board meeting to speak to any objections that your board members raise.
Sometimes it takes months or even years before your board feel ready to actually engage in the programme support - and we’re all good with that. Any support we can provide along the way, we are happy to do so.
And sometimes speaking with our alumni can help your board be sure of the value. We can connect you with alumni to speak to.

Does The Whare Hukahuka run training for individuals?

Our governance support is tailored around the needs of the whole board, rather than for individuals. We do have our Ka Eke Poutama programme for individuals.

We work with your board, chair and CEO together. We do this because it is proven to make the greatest impact in governance and leadership. It means that everyone is part of the process and develops a shared understanding of the collective and individual responsibilities of governance and management.

We tend not to just train one individual because governance is a team sport and needs everyone on board to create real change. We pride ourselves on creating real value, and to do this we need the commitment of your whole 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 2000+ Maori trustees. 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.