🔗 Creating a Governance CV (Institute of Directors)

A guide to building a governance CV, which is a very different thing from a employment CV. Your governance skills, training, memberships and board experience need to be front and centre. This guide shows you how.

(The IoD also offers paid governance CV training sessions and CV review services if you want expert eyes on yours.)

 

🔗 Board Shorts Podcast (Get On Board Australia, Lisa Cook)

A podcast on how to find board roles and thrive once you are there, including the hidden layer of board recruitment. Australian, but the thinking travels across the Tasman.

🔗 The Essentials of Being a Director (Institute of Directors and the Financial Markets Authority)

A quick-reference guide to a director's main responsibilities. A good first read for anyone new to governance.

 

🔗 Nine Steps to Effective Governance and toolkits (Sport New Zealand)

A cornerstone New Zealand governance framework, used well beyond sport, with help sheets adapted for small and voluntary organisations.

 

🔗 Good Governance Code and Resource Hub (Community Governance Aotearoa)

A foundational New Zealand guide to good governance, board evaluation tools, and a searchable hub of resources built for community organisations.

 

🔗 Community Resource Kit (CommunityNet Aotearoa)

Plain-English how-to guides on governance: the roles and functions of a governing body, officer roles, and running effective meetings. Excellent for first-time trustees.

 

🔗 Resource Centre: templates and guides (BoardPro)

Downloadable templates, including meeting minutes, CEO reports and board packs, plus plain-English governance guides.

 

🔗 Board Meetings Practice Guide (Institute of Directors)

A guide to running effective board meetings, covering boardroom practice, behaviour, and useful tools and templates.

 

🔗 Virtual and Hybrid Board Meetings (Institute of Directors)

An article on running effective online and hybrid meetings. Useful for regional boards where members often dial in from across the district.

🔗 NZ Navigator (NZ Navigator Trust)

An online self-assessment for community organisations across nine areas, including governance. Your board completes it and gets a report with scores, feedback and an action plan. Supported by the Department of Internal Affairs.

 

🔗 Governance guidance and self-review (Charities Services)

Government guidance for registered charities on governance, officer duties, conflicts of interest and running an AGM. Includes Te Puna Atawhaitanga for charities with a kaupapa Māori focus.

🔗 Governance Made Easy webinar series (BoardPro)

Regular webinars and recordings with leading experts, on being a good chair, board dynamics, strategy and more. Includes an Incorporated Societies Act series ahead of the re-registration deadline.

 

🔗 Webinars (Govn365)

Regular webinars on practical governance topics such as getting your board dynamics right.

 

🔗 Board Talks and workshops (Community Governance Aotearoa)

Online panel discussions and a Good Governance Code workshop series, tailored to New Zealand not-for-profits.

 

🔗 Board Talk: Off the Cuff podcast (Institute of Directors)

Candid conversations and practical tips for the governance community.