What are the secrets to getting the right people on your Board? Come along and find out!

What: Ōtautahi Governance Bites 2025 

Where: 3rd Wednesday of Month, at Aldersgate, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch Central

When: Sessions will run from 5.30pm to 7.00pm, with doors opening and pizza, tea & coffee available from 5.00pm.

Hosted by Volunteer Canterbury, and free to participants, thanks to funding from Rātā Foundation. Registration essential for each session at outreach@volcan.org.nz 

Getting the Right People Onboard (and Helping the Wrong People Overboard)

Date: 17 Sep 2025 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Facilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, from LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Governance and Leadership

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? And then … this is the tough stuff … despite our best intentions and efforts, we can still end up with the wrong people on board for various reasons. How do you tackle the difficult tasks of ‘sacking’ board member? And even do it with 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?