Innovation & Knowledge
National Not-For-Profit Sector Conference 2016
9-10 February 2016, Auckland
Tuesday 9 February
Day One – Innovation
8.30 am Networking, Coffee & Registrations
9.00 am Mihi Whakatau – Welcome
9.10 am The Case For Change
Keynote: Suicide Prevention Australia and the National Coalition for Suicide Prevention
- Who are we and what are our challenges?
- Did the organisation need to be fixed?
- How did we build a forward-thinking organisation?
- Where are we now?
Matthew Tukaki, Chairperson, National Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Australia
9.50 am Innovate or Die – Impact through innovation
Taking insights from research into innovation within the Not-For-Profit sector.
- The prevalence of innovation in successful organisations.
- What does an innovative Not-For-Profit look like and why are they successful?
- What are the barriers to innovation and how we can overcome them?
- 6 key steps to becoming an innovative organisation.
Shaun Lines, Director, Grow
10.30 am Networking break and morning tea.
11.00 am Driving Impact Through Negotiation
Case Study – Partnering to Innovate
- Setting the scene.
- Why buy a franchise?
- The partnership.
- What we learnt.
- Risks.
- Where to from here?
Wendy Becker, CEO, Enrich+
11.30 am
Interactive Workshops – choose from 3 key speakers:
- The future of Not-For-Profits – Matthew Tukaki, Chairperson, National Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Australia
The future of organisations operating in the not for profit sector has always been uncertain with many facing the equal challenge of funding and relevancy. In this one day workshop focussed on building for the future EntreHub CEO and Not for Profit Board Director and Chairman, Matthew Tukaki, will take participants through a journey of building for the future and how organisations can develop strategies that enable financial sustainability and best practice governance.
The content for the session will cover everything from how to restructure boards and acquire talent, income and revenue diversification through to harnessing social media to build brand and audience value.
In particular the focus will be:
• Restructure and governance – the change your organisation might need
• Business planning and strategic direction
• Revenue diversification
• Harnessing the power of social media engagement
• The reinvention challenge - Matching opportunity with innovation to build communities – Mark Daniels, Head of Market and Sector Development, Social Traders, Australia
So you have an idea about a social enterprise – what now? And how could this contribute to your mission? Take a broader view at what social enterprise has to offer, and showing success stories from across the ditch. - Women in Leadership: the critical skills to step up with confidence – Loretta Brown & Aly McNicoll, Directors, NZ Coaching & Mentoring Centre
This workshop will look at what the research shows about the realities for women in leadership roles and provide the opportunity to develop the critical skills to lead with confidence. It will bust some of the myths around confidence and provide practical strategies for dealing with the inner and outer factors that impact on leadership effectiveness.
* The hidden secrets of confidence that few women know * Overcome imposter syndrome * Uncover competing commitments that may be holding you back * Understanding workplace bias and the strategies to navigate successfully * Learn about the new ways of leading that are taking the world by storm.
1.00 pm Networking break and lunch.
1.45 pm Business Model Innovation
Case Study – Going Deep With Community and Services
A Place Based Approach – Why we are doing it? And what does this mean?
- How have we grown this?
- New learning from growth.
- How do we keep it sustainable.
- Where to next?
Lisa Woolley, CEO, VisionWest Community Trust
2.15 pm Where Social Entrepreneurship and Social Procurement Can Add Value
There are challenges in running a business to fund our mission, so how have real social businesses in Australia made a positive difference in communities? And what are the lessons for Not-For-Profits here?
- What is driving social enterprise?
- What is social enterprise?
- How do we make good ones?
- Demand capital supply.
- The greatest untapped tool for social change.
Mark Daniels, Head of Market and Sector Development, Social Traders, Australia
3.00 pm Networking break and afternoon tea.
3.20 pm
Interactive Workshops – choose from 3 key speakers:
- The future of Not-For-Profits – Matthew Tukaki, Chairperson, National Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Australia
The Not-For-Profit Sector is facing real challenges of sustainability and relevance – so let’s look at what it will take to address these two in a challenging 90 minute workshop. - Matching opportunity with innovation to build communities – Mark Daniels, Head of Market and Sector Development, Social Traders, Australia
So you have an idea about a social enterprise – what now? And how could this contribute to your mission? Take a broader view at what social enterprise has to offer, and showing success stories from across the ditch. - Women in Leadership: the critical skills to step up with confidence – Loretta Brown & Aly McNicoll, Directors, NZ Coaching & Mentoring Centre
This workshop will look at what the research shows about the realities for women in leadership roles and provide the opportunity to develop the critical skills to lead with confidence. It will bust some of the myths around confidence and provide practical strategies for dealing with the inner and outer factors that impact on leadership effectiveness.
* The hidden secrets of confidence that few women know * Overcome imposter syndrome * Uncover competing commitments that may be holding you back * Understanding workplace bias and the strategies to navigate successfully * Learn about the new ways of leading that are taking the world by storm.
4.50 pm Launch of the new changeXchange website from Social Enterprise NZ – a platform where vetted social/community enterprises can showcase their goods and services to community organisations, other social/community enterprises, councils and potential buyers. The website also provides a forum that enables the sharing of ideas and opportunities such as group buying between social/community enterprises.
5.15 pm – 7.30 pm Networking session, featuring Circability, Auckland’s Community Circus.
Wednesday 10 February
Day 2: Powerhouse
9.00am NFP Sector Overview – Shaun Robinson, Executive Director, NZ Aids Foundation
9.30 am Keynote: Looking Ahead:
Where the Government is really heading with community investment and the implications for providers.
Government is looking to buy services differently. The Community Investment Strategy provides the rationale and evidence behind MSD’s funding decisions, and work programme to hopefully better align funding for the most vulnerable New Zealanders to the right social services, and for providers to achieve results that meet these needs, with evidence about what works. What does this mean for your service? And will this see the big players getting all the contracts?
Come and hear first-hand from the DCE of Community Investment how you should position yourselves best to gain funding, or whether this is not where you should be looking. A full and frank discussion about Governments direction is promised.
Murray Edridge, Deputy Chief Executive Community Investment, Ministry of Social Development
10.15 am Networking break and morning tea.
10.45 am Select a Learning Stream from the following three and go deep on a specific learning area over three workshop sessions:
The People
Make the most of our people, develop and motivate our teams and deal with the challenges.
Aly McNicoll leads this stream
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11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Partner for Performance. In the NFP sector, your people are your best resource and there is no substitute for outstanding people. This interactive session looks at new ideas from the leadership literature to show how to get the best from the people you lead. It will look at Fifth Wave Leadership – the intrapersonal revolution, why performance reviews are on the way out, your ability to balance results and relationships as a leader, show how to partner for performance using coaching and provide tools to step up to some crucial conversations that you may have been avoiding.
Aly McNicoll – NZ Mentoring Centre
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12.30 pm
Networking break and lunch.
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1.15 pm – 2.45 pm
Get the HR stuff right : recruitment, induction, the legal stuff and rewarding contribution.
- What to do when things go wrong or change.
- Employer obligations regarding when to conduct workplace investigations.
- Common laws that create additional “boundaries” in the contemporary workplace.
- Understanding today’s “must-have” company policies to minimize risk of litigation.
- Health and Safety Overview.
Shane Henderson, Lawyer, Waitemata Community Law Centre
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2.45 pm – 3.00 pm
Afternoon tea & networking break.
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3.00 pm – 4.30 pm
Leadership & Decision Making in a Complex World.
The not for profit environment is marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and leaders at every level of the organisation need skills in complex decision making. Recent neuroscience research has revealed that we have complex, functional and adaptive neural networks, or ‘brains’, in our heart and gut regions, giving scientific credence to the growing body of leadership literature showing how the world’s best organisations are guided by leaders who can tap into the intelligence of their head, heart and gut.
This workshop will update you on the latest neuroscience and show how head, heart and gut are all essential in leading and decision making. Using the VUCA Model this workshop offers new insight into how to succeed in complex environments and use your full potential as a leader.
Dr. Suzanne Henwood, Director of mBraining4Success
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The Money
Find, attract, and generate more money to fund your mission.
Shaun Lines leads this stream
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11.00 am – 12.30 pm
An Introduction to effective fundraising, the elements of building a successful fundraising strategy.
Exploration of the sources of income available and the merits of each.
Manage your fundraising programme, and evaluating its performance.
Fiona McPhee – Pareto
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12.30 pm
Networking break and lunch.
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1.15 pm – 2.45 pm
Using cloud based technology solutions to drive fundraising campaigns, including case studies of several campaigns undertaken – successes, failures and learning gained.
Developing strategies for special events.
Megan Smith – Head of Global Sales and Marketing, Vega
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2.45 pm – 3.00 pm
Afternoon tea & networking break.
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3.00 pm – 4.30 pm
This presentation will consider the key elements of preparation and execution in major capital campaigns. It will also consider the emergence of social investment, a myriad of models and approaches that are becoming part of the social profit sector rhetoric, and its suitability for introducing new capital and revenue in New Zealand.
In an informative presentation with practical take away learning, Clive will draw on insights from 15 years of fundraising consultancy experience, over 2000 interviews with supporters of social profit organisations and direct involvement in projects that have raised many millions of dollars in New Zealand.
Clive Pedley, CEO, Giving Architects
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The Strategy
Find the pathway that best serves your mission and vision and develop a plan and action steps to get you there.
Create a living document that is a useful guide each day.
Shaun Robinson leads this stream
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11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Understanding Complexity: how to understand and take action in environments of complexity and uncertainty.
The Cynefin Framework: Distinguish between challenges that are obvious, complicated, complex, and chaotic – and determine how to lead appropriate situational transitions.
The Organisation & Knowledge: Stimulate innovation, build social networks, and engage stakeholders in more effective knowledge exchange.
This session will provide crucial new knowledge for: *Leadership *Project management *Change management *Cultural development *Innovation and development *Risk and crisis management.
Paul Sullivan and Steve McCrone from Cornwall Strategic
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12.30 pm
Networking break and lunch.
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1.15 pm – 2.45 pm
Bring your real world organisational problems and be prepared to think about them in some new ways.
Create strategic direction that is agile and passionate.
Shaun Robinson from NZ Aids Foundation
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2.45 pm – 3.00 pm
Afternoon tea & networking break.
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3.00 pm – 4.30 pm
The continuous process of creation and adaption – strategy and passion in the real world of NGOs.
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