Events

Tautoko Network

“Tautoko” relates to support and advocacy. We believe our unique Tautoko Network enables more accessible information sharing and collaboration across the local community sector. Our programme includes events within Christchurch City as well as the Hurunui, Selwyn and Waimakariri Districts.

REGIONAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

For a range of training opportunities throughout New Zealand, visit the Regional Training page at Volunteering New Zealand. These include a mix of face-to-face and remote training sessions to support volunteering and the community sector right across the country.

2021

October

Online Workshop: Doing the Difficult Stuff Well Part 1

Date: 27 Oct 2021 - 10:00am to 11:30am

Facilitator: Chris Atkinson, Volunteering Waikato
Venue: Online, via Zoom
Cost: $40 Volunteer Centre member organisations, $70 non-members. Registration is for BOTH PARTS.

Have you ever experienced a sense of dread when you need to address volunteer behaviour or have a conversation you don’t feel comfortable having? This workshop explores a range of techniques you can use to have effective conversations with volunteers.

November

Online Workshop: Doing the Difficult Stuff Well Part 2

Date: 2 Nov 2021 - 10:00am to 11:30am

Facilitator: Chris Atkinson, Volunteering Waikato
Venue: Online, via Zoom
Cost: $40 Volunteer Centre member organisations, $70 non-members. Registration is for BOTH PARTS.

International Volunteer Managers' Day: Professional Development Day

Date: 4 Nov 2021 - 9:00am to 3:00pm

Facilitator: Performance Matters and Community Law Canterbury
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street
Cost: Volunteering Canterbury Members: no charge; Non-members: $30pp

To mark International Volunteer Managers' Day 2021, we invite Volunteer Managers and Coordinators to join us for a day of professional development. In the morning we will address "Conflict in the Workplace", covering such things as conflict resolution approaches, active listening, giving constructive feedback, and positive questioning techniques. In the afternoon we will address "Workplace Bullying and Volunteer Rights" with an educational seminar providing tools and resources for businesses and workers to help guide you in preventing bullying in the workplace. Lunch is provided.

RSVP: Via email, including any dietary requirements. Limited numbers.

Governance Bites: The Board’s Role as a Great Employer

Date: 16 Nov 2021 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Facilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation

GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.

What can the board delegate, and what does it need to stay on top of? How do we balance our role in arms-length, independent supervision, and the need for engaged, collaborative support? How do we effectively balance a culture of checking and of cheer-leading? What are the critical elements of a ‘good employer’, and how does it become great? And what does that look like, when staff and volunteers are remote?

RSVP: Via email
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.

December

International Volunteer Day

Date: 5 Dec 2021 - 12:00am to 12:00pm

International Volunteer Day (IVDay) is an international event run by UN Volunteers and celebrated every year on 5 December. It champions the impact volunteers have in communities, nationally and globally. IVDay includes a wide variety of events, activities, and awareness-raising campaigns.

Tautoko Support Network Workshop: Diversity - Communicating in a Multicultural Workplace

Date: 6 Dec 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Facilitator: Lisa Burdes, Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Central City
Cost: Free event

This session will cover the various ways in which different cultures interact and communicate in the workplace. In particular we will focus on:
- understanding what makes New Zealand workplaces and communication different to other countries (and why it’s confusing for newcomers),
- how different cultures like to be managed, give and provide feedback, perceive initiative etc.,
- offering practical advice on how to deal with cultural differences in the workplace, and
- providing you with tools and resources to help with workplace relations.

RSVP: Via Email

2022

January

Tautoko Support Network Workshop: Health and Safety in 2022

Date: 26 Jan 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Facilitator: Community Law
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Central City
Cost: Free event

Community Law Canterbury will deliver some training on health and safety issues to be aware of in relation to volunteers. They will also discuss experiences with COVID, vaccinations and testing and how they are navigating the challenges these pose for relationships with our volunteers.

RSVP: Via Email

February

Governance Bites: Getting the Right People on Board

Date: 15 Feb 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

This session will cover all you need to know about recruiting non-profit and community board members. What makes a good board member, where do you find them, and how do you get them interested in your organisation? What are the three biggest traps in recruitment? And how do you get the most of new board members after they are on-board?

RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.

March

Governance Bites: Helping the Wrong People over Board

Date: 15 Mar 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

This session will cover the tough stuff. Despite our best intentions and event efforts, we can still end up with the wrong people on board for various reasons. How do you tackle the difficult task of ‘sacking’ a board member? After all, board members are ‘just volunteers’. How do you actually get the result you need, but also still act with some grace? How can succession planning actually happen in practice in small organisations, and how do you deal with ‘founder syndrome’ when founders have out-lasted their value for the organisation and may even be holding it back?

April

Governance Bites: The Secret of Better Board Meetings

Date: 19 Apr 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

As they say, it’s easy to ‘take minutes and waste hours’. Typical Agendas actually make good meetings more difficult, and who knows the difference between individual decision-making vs the group decision-making needed on boards? Can we be more efficient at our meetings? Maybe even more effective? And perhaps even actually enjoy them? It’s all possible and this participatory workshop will offer several practical tools to help make it happen.

May

Governance Bites: Keeping Board Members Engaged and the Role of the Chair

Date: 17 May 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Chairs have one of the most demanding jobs in a non-profit (and are usually among the lowest paid and trying to do it all on a very part-time basis). What is realistic, and what are the essentials? Can we look again at sharing roles around the board table? One of the key roles of a chair is to facilitate the board as a group – especially in its core role as group decision-makers. And given participation is the purpose if you are going to bother calling a meeting, how can a chair best facilitate real participation that will energise and enthuse board members, and get the best possible decision from a diverse group? We will look at some practical tools and frameworks to help make this happen in real world non-profit boards.

June

Governance Bites: Getting Real About Strategy for Boards

Date: 21 Jun 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Everyone wants to be strategic these days. It is used to refer to deceit and trickery in reality TV shows. As an adjective it makes any object or activity sound very important. But does it actually have any practical meaning left? What is a strategy and how is it different from a plan? Where does most strategy come from, and what is a realistic approach to developing a strategy for our organisation? And what really is the Board’s role in strategy (especially where there also is staff)? Participation in nonprofit boards provides individuals with an opportunity to influence impact in our city. This workshop offers practical tools and approaches to help a board lead organisational strategy.

July

Governance Bites: Everything You Wanted to Know About Nonprofit Boards But Were Afraid to Ask

Date: 19 Jul 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Do you have a question about your non-profit board? In our final Governance Bite session, Governance Guru, Garth Nowland-Foreman will answer all your governance questions. Nothing is off-limits. If you have a question, it will be helpful if you can email it to garth@lead.org.nz. But he will also answer questions on the spot - including anonymous questions. This is your chance to have that governance query or concern answered.