GOVERNANCE AROMATAWAI

The strength of any organisation starts with the quality of its governance.

Governance sets the overall direction and the way the organisation operates.

Too often governance boards are actually not focusing on performing their role –and instead may be distracted by operational matters, irrelevant details or political matters.

Our Governance Aromatawai provides an unbiased view of how your governance is really doing, and recommendations of where you can improve to elevate the mana and effectiveness of your board.

Handy tip: Funders love seeing that your board is in the habit of reviewing governance, and we can create a version to share with funders.

There are many different types of Governance Reviews and Board Evaluations. Each looks at a different aspect of good governance. 

Six of the main types are set out in the diagram below.

Our Te Whare Hukahuka Governance Aromatawai combines the first two. We do not deliver the other four –these are best done by HR, legal and financial specialists.

The Governance Aromatawai has six stages.

This process is generally completed over 4-6 weeks.

It will require roughly 2.5 hours of participant time in total:
= 40-60 mins for the diagnostic survey
= 20 mins for the personality profile
‍ = 60-90 mins for a 1-1 interview.

Once these datapoints are gathered, our team then undertakes the analysis, draws out the trends and summarises them into a report and a debrief session.

We check for 32 governance governance documents, including:

• Foundation documents

• Policy-related documents

• Board meeting documents

• Strategy-related documents

• Continuity documents 

We also undertake a review of five key governance documents:

1. Trust Deed / Trust Order / Constitution

2. Board Charter / Governance Manual (of policies)

3. Recent board pack

4. Current Strategic Plan

5. Annual Budget

Note: Your organisation’s documents and data provided during the Governance Aromatawai will be kept secure and confidential within the Te Whare Hukahuka delivery team. 

Ae mārika! For those with no access to the internet or a device, there are three options:

1. They can meet up with another trustee/GM to access their device.

2. We can run through the survey and quiz with them over the phone.

3. We can post them the documents to fill in manually with a return envelope.

Note: We can also post out paper copies of the final report if requested.

Once the diagnostic survey is completed, our team will be in touch about the 1-1 interviews. This allows us time to identify trends and calibrate questions for the interviews.

If you have any questions about the Governance Aromatawai process please feel free to give the team a call or drop us an email and we would be happy to help.