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Inspiring Regional Development
Leading the Way
Encouraging quality governance
| Presenters: |
Peter Tennent
New Plymouth District Mayor
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Clive Geddes
Queenstown and Lakes District Mayor
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Mary Bourke
South Taranaki District Mayor |
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Amohaere Houkamau
CEO, Te Runanga O Ngati Porou
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Edward Ellison
Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu |
Key Points
- Quality governance can contribute to regional development in terms of:
- Helping to tie a community together/being the cohesive force in the community
- Helping to find synergies and pulling together different positions
- Helping to steer towards strategic goals
- Creating alignment and capitalising on strengths
- Quality governance is about sacrifice and commitment.
- Quality governance is based on transparent, value-based decision-making and regular reviews.
- Critical to understand the difference between governance and management.
- Lead by example.
- Aim high - have high expectations.
- Be open to ideas.
- You need to recognise when you need assistance
- Be honest about what is important in leadership.
- Be in tune with your community.
- Ensure you have a clear direction and vision of where you are going and make sure you get your community buy-in - it is important to get everyone pulling in the same direction.
- The best ideas come from the community.
- Understand your peoples' thinking.
- Do not just listen - actually hear what they are saying and the messages they bring.
- Be credible and listen to all sides of the story.
- Utilise skills already in the community.
- Explore your model of governance - what is it that you are trying to make your organisation look like?
- Be proactive.
- Make tough decisions - not politically expedient ones. An unpopular decision is better than no decision.
- Identify people with good skills - and use them.
- Ensure that you can move on from difficult situations.
- Foster collective decision-making and transparent decision-making.
- Know your weaknesses.
- A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) [between who and whom] is a valuable management tool.
- Need to get the Maori aspect right. Maori have a different way of looking at things. Adhere to customary values.
- Governance is about:
- selfless leadership and actions
- collective decision-making
The Council is shaped to do the best possible job of delivering what the community wants - it is their organisation.
Avoid reinventing the wheel.
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