Tuakana Teina Chair Mentoring Programme

A partnership between Community Governance Aotearoa and Institute of Directors.

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Connecting the next generation of chairs to strengthen the community sector.

Community Governance Aotearoa and the Institute of Directors (IoD) partner to run the Tuakana Teina programme for new chairs of not-for-profits. The collaboration aims to strengthen and support the community governance sector with best-practice expertise of the IoD. This is a National Action Plan initiative in response to ensuring the boards of all community organisations are well chaired.

The concept of Tuakana Teina is a Māori values-based principle of ako (two-way learning), which draws upon shared experience, knowledge and support. 25 teina (mentees) are matched 1:1 with tuakana (mentors) for an eight-month programme, enhanced by additional training, support, and online and in-person events and workshops.

2024 is our third year running the Tuakana Teina Programme. Read about our 2024 Teina mentee profiles here.

You can check out the 2023 wrap up event here. And hear from some of our 2023 cohort of teina below as they share why they love community governance!

 

Programme highlights
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One-to-one mentoring

Successful Teina (mentees) will be matched with an established community board chair Tuakana (mentor) for a 10-month programme of one-to-one mentoring (usually six to seven sessions).

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Enriched programme

Mentoring sessions will be enhanced through a number of online and in-person events to connect with the other teina (mentees) in the programme and hear from governance experts on relevant topics.

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Access to training

IoD resources - Teina (mentees) will also receive complimentary access to the online IoD Governance Essentials and Finance Essentials training programmes during the programme period (a value of $1188 per person).

Meet some of our Tuakana

Introducing Alan Isaac

Introducing Mele Wendt

Introducing Prabha Ravi

Introducing Rawiri Bhana

Hear from our Tuakana and Teina

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