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Practical Tools for Directors of Sports Associations & Clubs 

Join our Sports Governance Essentials webinars to gain practical knowledge and insights for running your sports organisation and leading effectively and with confidence. Perfect for all directors: starting out, seasoned or aspiring. 

Are you on the board and leading a large sports body or a small local club? These Sports Governance Essentials webinars are packed with practical tips and tools for directors of all levels. We’ll cover how to run productive meetings, the key responsibilities of directors, and how to use board papers to drive informed decisions.

We’ll also dive into crucial topics like understanding your constitution, managing conflicts of interest, and ensuring legal compliance—all in a clear, easy-to-follow way. Plus, we’ll provide key strategies for chairing meetings productively, so the balance between strategy and operations is properly managed.  For those of you more experienced come along as you never know what gem may be dropped; governance learning never stops! Questions are very welcome throughout the sessions, giving you the chance to get the answers you need.

Join us to explore what rising leaders expect, with a particular focus on Digital Fluency, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Transparency, and Real-time access. Learn how mentoring can advance the next wave of Not for Profit (NFP) board members, and how tools like BoardPro are reshaping onboarding and induction to meet the pace of modern governance.

This webinar will help boards understand how to attract, engage, and support the next generation of directors by aligning governance practices with evolving expectations.

Think your AI project is just about tech? Think again. This session uncovers the human implications and blind spots boards overlook but can no longer afford to ignore.

From biased hiring tools to disappearing entry-level roles, AI is already reshaping who gets hired, who thrives, and who leads next. Shadow AI use is bypassing governance, widening inequality, and introducing costly security risks, often without board visibility. Women, early-career talent, and underrepresented groups face disproportionate displacement. This webinar is about sharpening awareness - you’ll leave with the right questions to ask, early warning signs to watch, and a clearer understanding of the workforce changes quietly taking shape under your leadership.

Who should attend?

This webinar is essential for board members, CEOs, senior executives, and governance leaders who want to understand the hidden workforce and governance risks AI is creating in their organisations.

Learn how to identify the right culture for your strategy and how to grow that into a great culture that “lives” within your organisation and drives successful performance. 

We are all currently operating in an environment of significant change, however how many of us are reviewing our organisational culture to ensure it is still aligned to our Strategy and fit for purpose. This webinar will assist you to ensure a common understanding of what culture is and how to identify a culture that drives organisational success.

This webinar is aimed at board members, CEOs, senior management and anyone who has accountability for organisational Culture.

Learn how to integrate foresight tools into your Strategy development process to provide a clearer picture of how future possibilities may unfold and how your organisation may need to adapt to be successful.

This webinar unbundles the key steps to developing a Strategy using the tools of foresight to better inform Strategic Priorities and long term plans.

• Understand the components of Strategy according to the International Standard ISO37000
• Learn how to identify the signals of the future that exist today
• Learn how to identify the drivers of change that are impacting on your operating environment
• Learn how to use these futuring tools to inform your Strategy development process, including identifying opportunities and risks.

This webinar is aimed at board members, CEOs, senior management and anyone who has accountability for organisational Strategy.

Join us for a two-part webinar series on the Incorporated Societies Act 2022—the most significant reform of New Zealand society law in over a century.

These sessions will guide you through the key changes and new compliance obligations your society must meet, including updates to governance structures, officer duties, constitutional requirements,  financial reporting and how this may impact operational activities.

You'll learn why re-registration before the April 2026 deadline is critical, the risks of inaction, and how to practically update your constitution and operational practices. Whether you're part of a sports club, cultural group, community organisation or any other member based association, these two webinars will help you understand what’s changing, what’s required, and how to prepare with confidence

Practical insights on board effectiveness, director remuneration, and governance best practice – grounded in data, and designed for today’s board challenges.

Is your board aligned, effective, and paying directors fairly?

Join Governance Expert, Giselle McLachlan and Strategic Pay’s Michelle Read for an evidence-backed session on how boards across New Zealand and Australia should be paying and performing in the boardroom. This practical, engaging webinar explores the latest governance and director remuneration insights to help your board plan, pay and perform with purpose.

We’ll cover:

• Trends and insights for director remuneration
• Best practice for board evaluations, skills matrices, and succession planning
• The role of the Chair in setting tone, performance expectations, and pay discussions

Perfect for directors, executives, and governance professionals wanting to lift boardroom practice and ensure governance processes are future fit.

Join us for a two-part webinar series on the Incorporated Societies Act 2022—the most significant reform of New Zealand society law in over a century.

These sessions will guide you through the key changes and new compliance obligations your society must meet, including updates to governance structures, officer duties, constitutional requirements,  financial reporting and how this may impact operational activities.

You'll learn why re-registration before the April 2026 deadline is critical, the risks of inaction, and how to practically update your constitution and operational practices. Whether you're part of a sports club, cultural group, community organisation or any other member based association, these two webinars will help you understand what’s changing, what’s required, and how to prepare with confidence. 

Strategic thinking is about shifting from oversight to foresight—shaping the future, not just managing the present. By asking sharper questions, fostering strategic awareness, and unlocking new possibilities, boards can drive lasting impact for the communities they serve.

Join us for 45 minutes of insights, practical tools and easy-to-implement techniques aimed squarely at helping Directors think strategically. From personally being strategic, cultivating your strategic mindset, techniques you can use even when everyone around you is in the weeds, through to the latest strategies in designing Board agendas, Board papers and shaping Board discussions. For CEOs, Executive leadership teams, new Directors, and experienced Chairs.

What does it really mean to be a director?
This clear, practical session explains your personal responsibilities, legal duties and what good directors know—and do—before, during, and after meetings.

Whether you're a new director or have years of board experience, it's always important to understand, know and remember what being a director means when it comes to duties, roles and responsibilities. This session is a straightforward look at what the law expects, how responsibility sits with you as an individual, and the difference between staying in your lane and overstepping.

We’ll cover key principles of good governance, risks to be aware of, and how to think clearly about your role—especially given that no situation will ever occur twice and your decisions will depend on facts, circumstances and your knowledge of your role.  If you want to contribute with confidence, this is the place to start.

AI risk isn’t theoretical—it’s happening now.

Learn how boards across Australia and New Zealand are building fluency, oversight, and safeguards to steer their organisations through the AI era with confidence.

With 76% of companies already using AI—including 69% deploying generative AI—the risks are real, and the responsibilities are rising. Directors are now expected to foresee and govern the ethical, legal, and strategic impacts of AI.

In this session, we’ll unpack the evolving regulatory landscape, share practical tools to map AI use across your organisation, and explore how leading boards are managing shadow AI, black box decisions, and compliance threats. If you’re a Chair, Director or executive leader, this is your briefing on how to govern AI risk without outsourcing your judgement.

Governance lives in the grey zone—especially when it comes to the board’s role in Human Resources (HR) oversight. Join us to explore how boards can navigate this space with clarity and alignment. Discover how HR oversight can be interpreted—and applied—in ways that best serve your board’s unique context.

In this timely and practical webinar, we’ll explore how boards can bring clarity and alignment to their oversight of Human Resources. You’ll learn how to navigate the grey areas, establish appropriate boundaries, and ensure your governance approach supports both organisational strategy and workforce wellbeing.

What you’ll take away:

• A clearer understanding of the board’s responsibilities in HR matters
  
  
• Practical guidance for navigating areas like executive performance, succession, culture, and workforce risk
  
  
• Tools to align your HR oversight with your board’s purpose, structure, and risk appetite

Whether you're a board member, chair, or executive working closely with the board, this session will equip you with insights to govern with confidence in one of the most nuanced areas of board responsibility.

Governance lives in the grey zone—where strategy and risk meet oversight. Join us to explore how boards can navigate this space with clarity and alignment. Discover how strategic and risk oversight can be interpreted—and applied—in ways that best serve your board’s unique context.

Governance doesn’t happen in black and white. It lives in the grey zone—where strategic direction and risk oversight intersect. This space is complex, often unclear, and highly dependent on your board’s unique context.

In this practical and thought-provoking session, we’ll unpack how boards can navigate the grey zone with clarity, alignment, and confidence. You’ll learn how to interpret and apply strategic and risk oversight in ways that support sound decision-making and forward momentum.

Join us to explore:

• What the “governance grey zone” really means—and why it matters
  
  
• How boards can balance strategic opportunity with risk mitigation
  
  
• Practical tools to align your oversight with your organisation’s purpose and priorities

Whether you’re a director, chair, or executive supporting the board, this webinar will sharpen your understanding of governance at the intersection of strategy and risk—and help your board lead more effectively in uncertain times

What are your obligations as a business owner, and how do you know if you are actually compliant? Even with a small team or limited resources, there are simple tools you can use to create accountability and protect your business. This webinar will show you how to build a fit for purpose compliance programme that works.

Who should attend?

If you’re a leader in a small or medium-sized business, compliance can feel overwhelming, expensive, or like something only big corporates need to worry about. But the truth is, the risks are real—and so are the opportunities to get it right without over-engineering your approach.

This webinar will show you how to build a compliance program that’s fit-for-purpose: practical, cost-effective, and aligned with the size and stage of your business. You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence, and a toolkit you can apply immediately to protect your business, your reputation, and your future growth. If you’re unsure where to start—or worried you’re missing something—this session is for you.

AI doesn’t replace your expertise, it sharpens it. Learn how to use AI to cut through noise, highlight key insights, and walk into your next board meeting ready to ask the questions that matter.

"With 55% of board packs over 200 pages" (AICD), directors have limited time and little signal in the noise. AI can help you focus on what matters and show up sharper than ever.

Most directors and executives spend hours preparing for board meetings only to get lost in hundreds of pages of reports.

But what if AI could help you prep faster and smarter? This webinar shows how leaders are using AI to summarise complex board materials, and explore new insights to shape better questions, without compromising confidentiality.

You’ll see how to save time, sharpen your focus, and ask better questions that drive real outcomes. Whether you’re an executive reporting to the board or a director seeking clarity, this session is your shortcut to smarter board prep.

What Every Board Director Needs to Know Before Letting AI Into the Boardroom

AI is already supporting admin tasks across organisations - but board minutes? That’s governance territory. In this session, we reveal how boards are experimenting with AI, what risks are emerging, and how to trial smartly, without sacrificing trust or accountability.

Minutes are not just meeting notes, they’re legal records, strategic artifacts, and potential liabilities. As AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, Fireflies, and Otter slip into board workflows, many directors are starting to ask the question: Are we gaining efficiency, or risking everything?

What You’ll Learn

• The real opportunities AI brings to board admin
• The silent risks hiding in AI-generated transcripts and drafts
• How AI could impact confidentiality, legal privilege, and discoverability
• Why minute-taking ≠ transcription and what boards must protect

In a world dominated by rapid change, fear and increasing uncertainty. Decisions on Cyber Security are difficult. Stakeholders and customers are intolerant of mistakes and vendors are focused on ‘monetising anxiety’. The use of AI in both attack and defence is increasing the complexity of decision making.

This webinar will focus on how to develop an Adaptive Cyber Security Strategy for your organisation and will include:

• The role of the board in cyber security governance
• Creating resilience in the face of constant change
• Shifting form reactive to proactive operations
• Moving beyond compliance to threat informed decision making
• Workforce readiness and business first focus

We will use recent examples of our work (AGLX) and cases from other organisations to illustrate our points and will provide the ‘Adaptive Cyber Security Guide’ to participants at the end of the session.

Great governance depends on more than structure, it hinges on strong relationships, clarity, and trust. When boards and executive teams are aligned, organisations move with purpose and confidence. When roles blur, the friction can slow everything down.

In this practical and insightful session, we’ll explore how boards and management can strengthen collaboration through clearer roles, better communication, and a shared focus on purpose. We’ll focus on the critical relationships especially between the Chair and Chief Executive, and how mutual respect and alignment can drive better outcomes for everyone.

Whether you’re a director, executive, or work closely with both, this webinar will give you tools and insights to improve the dynamics at the board table

Sometimes, boards struggle to find the right balance—either glossing over crucial details in pursuit of the ‘big picture’ or getting lost in the weeds of operational minutiae, missing the strategic forest for the trees.

This webinar will show you how to write board reports that bring clarity, direction, and focus to your boardroom conversations. You’ll learn how to highlight what truly matters, frame information for strategic discussion, and support informed decision-making without overwhelming your board with unnecessary detail.

Whether you’re preparing reports for governance, strategy, or performance, this session will help you elevate your reporting to ensure the board stays focused, aligned, and engaged with the issues that really count.

Chairing a board committee is more than just managing meetings—it’s about leadership, clarity, and impact. A well-run committee enhances board efficiency, sharpens decision-making, and ensures critical issues receive the focus they deserve. But what makes an effective committee chair?

Join Giselle McLachlan, Lynda Carroll, and Fiona McKenzie as they unpack best practices for leading with confidence, fostering productive discussions, and managing board dynamics effectively. Whether you're a seasoned chair or stepping into the role for the first time, this session will equip you with the insights and tools to drive stronger governance outcomes.

Tips for transitioning to a board portal

Is your board still relying on paper-based processes or scattered digital files? Transitioning to a board portal can streamline governance, enhance security, and improve board efficiency—but where do you start? Join us for this insightful webinar as we break down the key steps to successfully moving to board management software.

Learn best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and discover how a well-structured transition can save time and simplify board administration. Whether you're exploring your options or ready to make the shift, this session will provide the guidance you need. 

The unsung powerhouse of governance

Behind every high-performing board is a Company Secretary who ensures seamless governance, regulatory compliance, and strategic alignment. As the trusted adviser to directors, the Company Secretary holds a unique position—balancing corporate authority, ethical integrity, and practical judgement to navigate complex governance landscapes.

Whether in a listed company, a not-for-profit, or a government entity, this role is far more than just administrative; it is pivotal in shaping decision-making, mitigating risks, and upholding the organisation’s reputation. However, with great influence comes potential for conflict—demanding discretion, diplomacy, and deep technical expertise.

Join us as we explore the multifaceted responsibilities of the Company Secretary and uncover how this role can elevate board effectiveness, enhance corporate governance, and steer the organisation towards long-term success.

Join us as we explore how directors can support work to be the means for people to realise their potential and do great things.

Success with your organisational goals is entirely dependent on the performance of your people. Learn how boards can enable improved management practices and set expectations around work design and organisational culture. This can support increased wellbeing, innovation and productivity, in addition to reducing worker burnout and unwanted turnover.

Workplace practices can also have a positive impact on wellbeing well beyond the workplace, ultimately making our communities more resilient and contributing to society’s psychosocial health and prosperity

Discover how AI enhances boards to gain innovative strategic insights and productivity tools to meet governance challenges and improve decision making and transformative opportunities.

AI enables boards to concentrate on value-added activities by automating tasks and enhancing decision-making. Join us to learn how to implement practical use cases of AI, such as custom AI tools and personas that will boost your productivity and help you guarantee future-ready governance.

You will learn how AI integration strategies enable boards to embrace innovation, improve efficiency, and navigate challenges in a rapidly changing governance environment. You will get actionable tips on developing AI policies and overcoming the challenges of implementing them to ensure smooth board integration

Story is the thread. It connects everything.
Shared knowledge drives the success of our species. The capacity to build and believe in abstract thought is our defining characteristic:

We communicate in story. We view the world through default narratives. We need to believe. Strong, consistent stories bind our organisations. Our purpose or just cause, well told, will bring us closer to and connects us with our stakeholders. 

Outside your organisation people form their own stories about you and your activities. You can contribute both positively and negatively to that narrative. Certainly, you should not let others frame your story for you without a coherent attempt to influence its direction.

But remember there are two sides to every story and that a story only has meaning from the perspective of the recipient not the teller.

Take a moment to reflect on how your organisation’s story is being told, received, and understood—by attending our free webinar this month.

Effective crisis management starts long before a crisis hits. Boards play a critical role in this. With a fiduciary duty and responsibility to protect the interests of shareholders, effective crisis response is a critical part of the board’s mandate to oversee good governance and management of risk. It is one part of the board’s normal assessment of the ongoing viability and sustainability of its business.

Boards must be equipped to lead with foresight, agility, and strategic clarity. This webinar offers an invaluable opportunity to enhance your governance toolkit and deepen your understanding of effective crisis management and strategic oversight. Whether you’re a board member, chair, or senior executive, you’ll gain actionable insights to help you:

• Strengthen your governance skills: Learn how to anticipate risks and ensure your board is prepared for the unexpected.
• Enhance decision-making: Discover strategies to improve crisis response and align boardroom decisions with long-term organisational sustainability.
• Build organizational resilience: Explore practical approaches to fostering a culture of adaptability and proactive risk management.
• Gain expert insights: Hear from seasoned professionals who will share real-world examples and best practices for leading through uncertainty.

Don’t miss this chance to sharpen your strategic thinking and contribute to stronger, more effective boardroom leadership.

Boards have been tasked with pivoting and re-orienting to a new future in a state of great uncertainty. While the "right" path forward through these challenges will look different to each business, the Board processes, practices and skills that will identify winning strategies will be common. 

This panel will present specific experiences and ideas that can help your board develop a more effective strategic orientation and promote a culture of thinking "24-7 strategic thinking" to stay ahead of change. These tools can help your organisation be ready and confident to confront the challenging decade ahead, whatever awaits. 

Join us for an insightful webinar designed to help you build the board you’ve always wanted—one that drives success and elevates your organisation’s impact. This webinar has been crafted to guide you through the essential elements of creating, recruiting, and managing a professional advisory board that will give your organisation a true competitive advantage.

In this webinar, you’ll gain the knowledge and practical insights needed to design a board that doesn’t just follow but leads with purpose. You’ll discover effective strategies for identifying and recruiting the right members, building a dynamic, diverse board, and creating a framework for ongoing success. Learn how to set your advisory board up for impactful collaboration, ensuring they bring true value to your organisation and play a critical role in achieving your long-term vision.

Join us for an insightful webinar designed to help you build the board you’ve always wanted—one that drives success and elevates your organisation’s impact. This webinar has been crafted to guide you through the essential elements of creating, recruiting, and managing a professional advisory board that will give your organisation a true competitive advantage.

In this webinar, you’ll gain the knowledge and practical insights needed to design a board that doesn’t just follow but leads with purpose. You’ll discover effective strategies for identifying and recruiting the right members, building a dynamic, diverse board, and creating a framework for ongoing success. Learn how to set your advisory board up for impactful collaboration, ensuring they bring true value to your organisation and play a critical role in achieving your long-term vision.

This webinar will illuminate the intricate landscape of conflicts of interest within the boardroom. Navigating conflicts effectively is not just a skill; it's a necessity for maintaining integrity, fostering trust, and ensuring sustainable organizational success.

Through this webinar, our aim is to provide you with actionable takeaways that can be immediately applied in your boardroom responsibilities. Explore the many case studies and “in the trenches” stories that illustrate how difficult situations have been handled, the various nuances of conflicting interests, and what happens if this is not professionally and competently handled.

This course is designed especially for:

• Directors, including executives-directors, nominee directors and shareholding directors
• CEOs who aspire to great governance from the board they have, rather than the board a textbook might recommend
• Company secretaries who want to add value and support their directors

Conflict doesn’t have to divide your board—it can be the spark that drives innovation. Discover practical strategies, real-world case studies and proven models for transforming disagreement into creative solutions.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how the friction of conflict can fuel groundbreaking ideas and better board decisions. Using a model of participatory decision-making, we’ll unpack the different phases that are needed to turn disagreements into innovation. You’ll hear inspiring examples from diverse fields and gain actionable tips. 

Whether your challenges involve budgets, strategy or team dynamics, this session will equip you with tools to embrace conflict, navigate tough discussions, and emerge with creative solutions that align with your mission and values.

Cultivating an effective boardroom culture is essential for building trust, creating a psychologically safe environment, and enabling the board to deliver excellence for the organisation. Creating an effective boardroom culture is no longer a ‘nice to do’, but a requirement for meeting work health and safety obligations and duty of care.

Board culture challenges come in many forms, and the impact can be devastating.

• misalignment of purpose and desired outcomes
• passion for purpose vs strategic priorities
• control vs inclusion
• inexperience vs skills and capabilities
• bias and assumption vs open-mindedness,
• and failure to uphold and role model the organisation’s culture and values.

The impact of your board culture, good or bad, will impact your board members and flow through the organisation. It will show up positively or negatively in trust, wellbeing, confidence, alignment, engagement, and effort.

Don’t miss this session where nothing is off limits. Culture expert, Georgia Henry, will share insights from her experience and strategies for overcoming culture challenges in the boardroom. 

Unlock the potential of AI in governance with this insightful webinar, designed to help directors and executives integrate AI into their decision-making processes.

Key points:

• Learn how to leverage AI as a governance co-pilot to tackle boardroom challenges and improve strategic decisions.
  
  
• Move beyond AI's theoretical potential to actionable steps that can be applied in real-world governance scenarios.
  
  
• Gain fresh perspectives for more informed decision-making through AI integration.
  
  
• Receive the building blocks and tools to embed AI into daily governance processes, keeping your board ahead of industry trends.
  
  
• Explore governance themes and adopt essential AI tools to boost overall boardroom effectiveness.

Is your Board prepared for the next CEO appraisal? Join us in a dynamic webinar offering invaluable insights on conducting effective CEO reviews, setting KPIs, and driving performance.

This session will equip you with the tools to conduct a powerful and constructive CEO review. Learn to tackle tough questions, establish meaningful KPIs, align them with strategic priorities, and link performance to incentive payments.

• Prepare for challenging conversations and set a robust framework for the next 12 months.
• Ensure your CEO appraisal is not just a formality but a driving force for organisational success.

Learn how to run a lower stress process to produce an engaging annual operating plan.
An annual operating plan is a prized document. It's the blueprint for building your organisation in any given year. You wouldn’t build a house without architectural drawings. Unfortunately, many small to medium businesses or non-profit CEO’s run their organisation's with only a sketch of what they are building.

This webinar is aimed at CEOs of commercial and not for profit organisations with revenues between $1M and $40M and a functioning management/leadership team (i.e., 3+ managers) who don’t have a strong track record of strategic and operational planning. 

Join us for our enlightening webinar, 'How to think differently about whole of business governance’, where Dr Dean Blomson and our expert panel will be guiding us through an exploration of business governance design.

This webinar is designed to explore governance beyond the confines of the boardroom, into and across the business entity (whether for-profit or not-for-profit; whether listed or public). If boards are to be effective in their governance, then the systems, processes, and structures of the business itself need to be properly designed and reliably managed. Board systems don’t or shouldn’t exist in a parallel universe from the organisation itself (although often it seems like they do). 

Dean, supported by the panel, will delve into why it is crucial for any organisation to develop a business-wide governance model that doesn’t necessarily start with the board and its requirements but ultimately supports these effectively and efficiently. Dean will touch on his research into enterprise governance design, plus his prior BoardPro presentation from 5 September (“Bespoke governance”: How to determine if your governance is fit-for-purpose). 

Learn the fine art of CEO reporting to the board in four simple steps in 45 minutes from industry and governance experts.
Once targets have been clearly defined, the CEO should be able to produce a report that clearly and easily gives the board the information they need. As a rule, the first two pages should be enough for board members to gather a broad understanding of the position of the business, without having to read any further. 

The art of collaborative leadership can enhance relationships and transform boardroom decision-making. This webinar will dive into the key components of collaboration and offer practical tips for implementation.

Leadership styles profoundly impact the effectiveness of boards and leadership teams. While autocratic leadership may deliver quick results, it’s the more challenging art of collaborative leadership that fosters lasting success. Contrary to popular belief, collaborative leadership is not as congenial as you may think. In fact, it involves healthy doses of conflict, feedback and accountability. 

This webinar will unpack the core components of collaborative leadership and provide pragmatic strategies for boards and leadership teams to make smarter decisions, increase engagement, encourage innovation, and manage power dynamics effectively.

Discover how to use strategy to shape boardroom conversations effectively. Explore the board's role in creating the future for stakeholders, understanding the present and future landscapes, and determining necessary actions.

Learn the three keys to strategies:

Vision/Purpose, Strategic Plan, and Operational Plan—and how to align board agendas, reports, and discussions to drive strategic outcomes and address common boardroom challenges. Are you ready to transform boardroom dynamics today?

BONUS: Includes a strategic board meeting agenda guide and MS Word template

UK VERSION WITH JOHN COURTNEY OF BOARDROOM ADVISORS
Learn how to develop and structure a strategic board agenda that keeps the board focused on the important matters during the meeting.

Focus only on those strategic items that matter

Do your meetings tend to get unfocussed or off-track, or are they a sound use of time, focusing on strategic items that move your organisation forward?

Provide your directors with clarity on what they should do with each paper, and reduce the amount of time wasted on ineffectual discussions. 

Learn how to develop and structure a strategic board agenda that keeps the board focused on the important matters during the meeting.

Focus only on those strategic items that matter

Do your meetings tend to get unfocussed or off-track, or are they a sound use of time, focusing on strategic items that move your organisation forward?

Provide your directors with clarity on what they should do with each paper, and reduce the amount of time wasted on ineffectual discussions. 

Are you struggling to balance the competing interests and priorities of board members, employees, investors and others? In this webinar, you will learn practical tips on how to negotiate stakeholder alignment and build commitment to the organisation’s success.

You will also learn practical tips and actionable strategies for negotiating stakeholder alignment and building commitment to the organization’s success. Our expert presenters, Fiona McKenzie , and Steven Bowman will guide you through proven frameworks to identify key interests, mediate conflicts, and create a shared vision that resonates with all stakeholders. 

Whether you're a board member, executive, or team leader, this webinar will empower you to turn stakeholder challenges into opportunities for growth and strategic alignment.

How to establish an Adaptive Strategy and bring the board and organisation on the journey. 

As the rate of change increases and the world becomes more complex and uncertain, traditional strategy methods become less effective. Over the last few years new methods of creating and activating strategy have been developed. Adaptive strategy provides a new paradigm in strategic thinking. Using our experience with The Guardians of NZ Superannuation we will show how we co-created an Adaptive Strategy and how it influences and guides decision making.

Explore using skill matrixes to ensure effective director succession planning and onboarding. Understand how to identify the right competencies, balance the board’s collective expertise, and plan for future needs.

In today’s business world, boards must be agile, diverse, and prepared for future challenges. A skill matrix is a powerful tool that helps boards evaluate their current capabilities, identify gaps, and ensure they have the right mix of skills for long-term success.

This webinar will guide you through creating and utilising a skill matrix for director succession planning and onboarding. We will cover key elements such as identifying essential skills, assessing current directors, and planning for strategic recruitment and training.

This webinar is meticulously designed to illuminate what 'fit-for-purpose' governance really means in today's dynamic business environment. 
Dr Dean Blomson, supported by the panel, of Steven Bowman and Lisa Cook, will delve into why it is crucial for any organisation to develop a bespoke governance model that fits its unique needs, not generic, ‘one-size-fits-all’ governance. 
Dean will briefly touch on his research into new operating model constructs (shared in a previous session on 7 March 2024 – ‘Governance 4.0’); the key topics and questions the board and executive need to ask themselves (and answer) in order to determine what ‘fit-for-purpose’ means for them. 
Dean, together with the panel will be offering actionable suggestions for boards and executives.

Increasingly boards are in the frame when things go perilously wrong and people die.  Industrial manslaughter legislation exists in several jurisdictions putting the onus on directors to know how their compliance 'T's were crossed and 'I's dotted.  What they knew when and what they did with the information when they had it.  Could or should they have done more? Compliance requirements pervade all levels of an organisation and includes the maintenance of board policies, asking management for more information when required, and understanding the scope and extent of delegations.

This session won’t necessarily be able to answer all your questions, but it will be a start to how you might think differently about compliance being someone else’s responsibility.

A difficult director can derail the performance of a board very quickly. This webinar will provide tips for how to tackle conversations with directors that are causing problems.

Difficult directors come in all shapes and sizes – some never listen to the opinions of others, some are aggressive, some barely fulfil their commitments. In all cases, a difficult director left unchecked will cause dysfunction, a lack of unity or otherwise impact the smooth operation of the board.

Dealing with these situations in a timely manner is imperative for the ongoing success of a board. This webinar will provide a framework so that you can confidently prepare for and engage in difficult – but constructive – conversations.

There would not be a director in the world who has not had a gripe about the conduct of a colleague at one time or another for annoying, frustrating or downright dreadful behaviour during a board meeting.  If you’re one of them join this session to hear about approaches to instilling a code for meeting etiquette.

How directors conduct themselves at the board table has a big influence on the success and effectiveness of meetings and thus on the performance of the organisations they serve.  Indiscretions can be small and aggravating or big and adversely influential from subverting good governance practice to blatant bullying and everything in between.  However everyone is responsible for their behaviour and should understand they will be called to account if the rules of engagement aren’t adhered to.

This session will address meeting etiquette, what it encompasses, the place of the code of conduct or board charter, and the role of the chair in setting and maintaining standards.

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According to studies, some 60–90% of strategic plans never fully launch (HBR). This webinar will provide practical tips and tools on shifting strategy from words on a page to impactful action.

Bridging The Gap – Strategic Design and Operational Implementation

When bridging the gap, Chairs and CEOs should be considering the strategy design process and preempting the execution gaps. Join us to discuss the two most important facets:
1) An iterative CEO led Strategic Design process with the Board and,
2) A rigorous Execution Cadence led by Management.

This webinar will cover how to tackle common pitfalls of misalignment, lack of engagement, and inadequate traction.