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Legal & Compliance

A Fresh Look at Directors' Duties

What are the essential duties and responsibilities of an NFP director? Rebecca and Yoni present a clear and concise refresher for all directors.

Strategy

The Strategy Triangle

Is your board harnessing the power of the strategy triangle to drive real results? Learn how the strategy triangle offers a unique, powerful, and practical approach to strategic planning.

Legal & Compliance

Charity Establishment, Registration & Compliance

Do you have a clear understanding of what 'not-for-profit,' 'charity,' and 'deductible gift recipient' mean for you as a director? These terms have distinct legal definitions. Getting them right is essential.

Strategic Marketing & Public Relations

Building Your Organisation's Reputation Through Media

Learn how to get your positive stories up repeatedly in the media and build your organisation's profile and credibility.

Human Capital

Effective Director Induction

Board induction is a crucial element to successfully transitioning a new board member into your organisation. Learn how to effectively welcome a new director onto your board.

Strategy

From Strategy to Impact

Guiding Member-Based Organisations to Success. Explore strategies for ensuring that members and sector representatives remain central to organisational strategies.

Governance

Getting the Most Out of Board Committees

Very helpful and insightful discussion on board committees. Excellent refresher for boards considering forming a sub-committee, or those working with or in a board committee.

Risk

Digital Detours: Unseen Risks on the Road to Transformation

Be inspired to innovate with new digital technologies, while keeping compliance and risk management as a constant focal point.

Board Dynamics

Resolving Small Conflicts Before They Become Big Battles

Excellent refresher for all board members and executives, that will assist you to navigate delicate and difficult conversations.

Governance

Governance 101

An introduction to the fundamentals of contemporary governance. Directors have distinct governance roles and responsibilities. It is crucial to understand both the theory and practical application of these roles to add value to the board and meet stakeholder expectations.

Governance

Indigenous Governance Excellence

Jessica Bulger, CEO of the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute (AIGI), leads a webinar on the critical role of two-way governance practices.

Performance & Metrics

Unlock Your Board's Potential With Effective Board Assessments

Raphael will explore how you can use board evaluation to unlock your board's full potential. Hear actionable insights and practical tips to help you to undertake assessments effectively.

Governance

Stepping Up: Mastering the Role of Chairperson

This panel offers chairpersons at any stage of their career — aspiring, new, or experienced — practical advice and strategies to refine their chairing skills.

Governance

Best Practice Governance for Better Board Decision-Making

Explore governance tools & systems that help keep your board performing at its best. Tamara shares insights on employing best practices in board packs, meetings, registers, and lodgements to ensure smooth operations and compliance.

Leadership

Building Organisational Health through Strategy, Culture and Values Alignment

Join Jono for a case study on how to ensure that strategy, culture and values drive performance and outcomes, and aren’t just tag lines people throw around in meetings.

Risk

Risk Appetite – What's Yours?

Explore why risk appetite seems to be a tricky topic and not well understood, and see the value of well-defined risk appetite statements and learn how to craft them ready for use in your boardroom.

Accounting & Finance

Financial Fitness for Directors in the Boardroom: Becoming future fit financial governors

Collectively as the board most directors discharge their financial monitoring responsibilities by relying on the director perceived to be the most financially capable. However, this widespread practice can render directors more vulnerable to duty breaches and associated liabilities.

Accounting & Finance

Financial Fitness for Directors in the Boardroom: Nailing accountability challenges for future fit governance

Accountability is a key element of governance. In this session Dr Craig Furneaux provides an accountability framework which is actionable and comprehensive.

Accounting & Finance

Financial Fitness for Directors in the Boardroom: Optimising your reserves for financial stability and sustainability

Bernd will examine research concerning the optimal level of financial reserves and the capacity to meet ongoing operational needs. He will discuss not-for-profit case studies exploring how stakeholders' perceptions of an ideal level of financial reserves vary based on their professional backgrounds.

Leadership

Achieving Social Impact: Leadership success with board collaboration in a major strategy pivot

Liz leads a case study examining an example of innovative leadership and board cooperation through the lens of Environmental Social Governance.

Performance & Metrics

How Effective Board Reporting Can Help Directors Sleep at Night

Join Rachel for practical and implementable strategies that will ensure your board reporting is contributing to informed decision-making and enhancing your board effectiveness.

Innovation

Innovation and Automation: Helping to drive transformational governance

Identify how ready your organisation is for Automation and AI, and explore practical tips you can take away and implement in your organisation.

Legal & Compliance

Privacy Protection Reform - Upcoming Changes and Tips to Adapt

Resilient Governance and Technology. Privacy protection changes are coming – Vera Visevic is helping you to prepare now before the proposed changes become law.

Governance

Impactful Governance Ecosystems

Designing governance for impact takes creativity, courage and community. When you are thinking about systems change - we need to rethink the approach to governance in a way that reflects the dynamics of systems work.

Governance

Woke v Enlightened Governance

An essential perspective, Helen Bird talks on the shifting sands of Australian corporate governance and why it matters. Find out more on the state of play of governance in Australia, is it fit for purpose?

Governance

Boards, CEOs, and Executive Teams: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Hear valuable perspectives and actionable insights for directors, executives, and aspiring leaders seeking to navigate the complexities of governance and leadership in today’s dynamic business environment.

Governance

Strengthening Your Governance & Leadership

Join Michael to learn about 10 key approaches aimed at establishing new or strengthening your existing governance and leadership practices and processes.

Organisational Development

Mergers & Amalgamations ... the realities & practicalities

Gain an understanding of the critical steps involved when considering a merger or amalgamation.

Human Capital

Hire, Review & Fire: Understanding the CEO Lifecycle

Join our panel of experts as they delve into the intricate CEO engagement lifecycle, from hiring to potential separation.

Legal & Compliance

What's next in Directors Duties?

This panel outlines the core directors' duties and explores the current ways in which they are evolving.

Governance

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

This is an essential presentation for board members who need a refresher on what it means to be a director.

Legal & Compliance

Legal Structures for Not-for-Profit Organisations

The legal structure you choose for your organisation should meet your organisation’s needs, and allow for future development and growth of the organisation.

Legal & Compliance

Legal Updates for NFP Directors, Related Party Transactions (2023)

This presentation talks about Related Party Transactions, and is part of the panel on legal updates at the Better Boards Conference 2023.

Legal & Compliance

Legal Updates for NFP Directors, Workplace Reforms (2023)

Ben discusses psychosocial hazards in the workplace, Respect at Work and changes to sexual harassment laws as part of the recent workplace reforms (2023).

Governance

Climate Risk Governance - NFP board & directors' duties

Gain a contemporary understanding of climate-related financial risks (and opportunities) which is a necessary foundation for a robust system of corporate governance.

Legal & Compliance

Marvellous Minutes

Minutes are an integral part of director, committee and member meeting procedure. Become familiar with the currently recognised best practice with respect to minutes.

Performance & Metrics

What Does It Take To Be a High Performing Non-profit Board?

Hear Melissa's thoughts on what the common elements are in high-performing non-profit boards, that she has seen after having worked with hundreds of non-profit boards.

Business Excellence

Policies and Procedures That Work

Improve your organisation by creating documentation that actually works! John will look at what makes a good process or procedure document, how you can easily deliver these documents at the point of use and why you should expect (and demand) that they are updated on a regular basis.

Leadership

Understanding the Role of the Chair

George shares insights from his time as the chair of several not-for-profit organisations. He discusses challenges and successes he has encountered in the chair role, and valuable lessons he has learned along the way.

Accounting & Finance

Audit Readiness

Understand what areas require your detailed consideration and how best to document this consideration, to set up your entity for a smooth and efficient audit.

Board Dynamics

Understanding the Board/CEO Relationship

Gavin, Jane, Rainer and Caroline will draw on their extensive experience both in chief executive and board chair positions to demystify this most important relationship.

Strategic Thinking & Decision Making

Strategic Thinking for a New Era

Keen to develop your strategic thinking? At a practical level, you can expect to reflect and learn how to power up your strategic thinking in a few simple steps that you can immediately put into practice.

Legal & Compliance

Understanding your NFP's Constitution and Rules

A not-for-profit constitution is fundamental to your organisation's governance. Join Jonathan Teh and Jamila Shirzad for an excellent explanation.

Risk

Risk Appetite & Effective Decisions

In this webinar, you will learn a practical method to agree with fellow board members on your organisation’s preferred, as well as maximum tolerable: Strategic risks, Financial risks, Operational risks and Compliance risks.

Legal & Compliance

Changing Your NFP's Legal Structure (Panel)

How and why do you go about changing from an Incorporated Association to Company Limited by Guarantee? This panel discussion will help strengthen your understanding in this area.

Business Excellence

Boards and Business Models

Business models are at the core of an organisation’s financial strength. It is therefore critical that Board members have a sound understanding of the business models of the organisations they govern.

Legal & Compliance

New rules for NFP Tax Reporting

There are new tax reporting structures coming for NFP organisations in Australia in 2023. What do the changes to incoming not-for-profit tax regulations mean for your organisation?

Organisational Development

Organisational Transformation

Executing a successful organisational transformation will require leaders to undertake the necessary strategic thinking, strategic discussions and strategic decisions, in essence bold discussions and brave decisions.

Governance

The Fundamentals of Good Governance

An overview of the fundamentals of good governance for NFP directors. A must watch for both new and experienced directors.

Governance

Navigating the Annual General Meeting

How can we turn the AGM from a box ticking exercise into an opportunity? How can we set ourselves up for AGM success? This panel, chaired by Garry Barnes from Vital Advisory, will explore these questions and more.

Board Dynamics

Working With Your Board: Strategies for Success

The strength of your relationship with the board ensures business success and reputational security. Learn how to manage the boundaries whilst maintaining positive leadership, autonomy and good governance.

Accounting & Finance

Financial Reserves: Finding the goldilocks zone

How much of a financial reserve do you need? How do you to create a reserves policy for your organisation?

Business Excellence

Building Better Business Cases for your Board

In this panel Gavin, Alison, Alex and Cathy, using case studies from their experience, will explore how best to build a business case with your Board

Legal & Compliance

Understanding the role of the Company Secretary

Kristy Huxtable, an experienced Company Secretary, will present you with some tips and tricks on what makes a good Company Secretary and Governance professional.

Accounting & Finance

Understanding the Role of the Treasurer

The Treasurer plays a key role within the board that can greatly contribute to the success of of an organisation. It is critical to have a clear understanding of what is expected in this role.

Legal & Compliance

Directors Duties - Do they ever end? Some practical tips for NFPs.

Victor discusses the duties imposed by law on Directors and Committee Members, and covers tips on how a director can fulfil their duties and protect themselves from potential personal liability. A great refresher for experienced directors and essential viewing for new or aspiring directors.

Governance

Taking the Helm: Transitioning from Director to Chair

In this session Tracy will: • Explore the pathways to becoming a chair • Discuss the scope and responsibilities of the Chair vs. an NED • Look at the skills and personal qualities needed to be an effective chair • Examine the chair’s role in driving board culture.

Boardroom Technology

What Directors need to know about Cyber Security

Cyber Security is not just a fad, and if handled badly represents a real risk to organisations and indeed to the reputations of Directors. What is the role of the board and its sub committees in relation to security?

Strategic Thinking & Decision Making

Beyond Directors Duties: frameworks and mental models for directors

Aaron Goldsworthy will explore mental models and associated tools and processes that can assist directors to strengthen and enhance their organisation and ultimately what they deliver for their customers.

Governance

It's not in the Tea Leaves, It's in the Minutes

Examine the principles and content of a good agenda and minutes. Viewers will gain new respect and insight into the importance of these documents in painting an organisation, not just in retrospect, but in prospect.



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Leadership

Ethics and Accountability

This pathway is aimed at leaders or prospective leaders wishing to consolidate their understanding of the role of ethics and accountability in leadership.


Governance

My Directorship: My Roles, Responsibilities, Risks and Rewards

Gain an in-depth understanding and practical application of their various community governance roles and responsibilities.


Governance

The Board Chair

Discover what the role of the board chair is, what skills they should have, how they can work effectively with the CEO and how to implement structures to make the board chair effective.


Practical Risk for Company Directors

Practical Risk for Company Directors

This comprehensive course in Risk Management aims to equip you with an understanding of the board's role in managing risk, and to provide you with practical tools and solutions for conducting effective risk oversight in your role as a director.