After its inaugural online success in 2022, Tapuwae Roa’s Māori in Governance Summit is set to return in July 2024 as a hybrid event. Recently renamed as Amorangi, the one-day summit will be held in person for the first time in Wellington as well as being live-streamed to online attendees. Te Pūoho Kātene, Kaihautū of Tapuwae Roa says, in a statement, that with almost 1,000 online registrations in its first year “our previous summit highlighted the rapidly growing need for tikanga-led, future-focused Māori leaders in Aotearoa”. “This year, we aim to raise that bar even higher and share the ins ..read more

Striking a delicate balance between control and adaptability is never easy. But the answer may lie in reframing the way leaders think about adaptability and control. Instead of seeing them as being opposing forces, Rob Cousins suggests leaders see them as complementary aspects of effective management.  Leaders are constantly challenged to strike a delicate balance between control and adaptability. On one hand, maintaining control is essential for ensuring efficiency, consistency, to meet KPIs, manage change, and create stability within an organisation. On the other hand, the need to be ad ..read more

Privacy Week (13-17 May) is a great time to consider the importance of privacy and to help ensure you and your company have good privacy practices in place, writes Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster.  This year’s theme for Privacy Week is Busting Privacy Myths, one of which is that privacy is primarily a risk prevention exercise, with the focus being on trying to stop things like privacy breaches and data hacks from happening.  Prevention is hugely important as the financial and reputational damages can be huge. For example, in March 2023, Latitude Financial suffered a massive cybe ..read more

For young (and perhaps not so young) leaders wanting to move into a top job, it appears that it’s your ability to deliver that is pivotal for any CEO role. In the second article in our So, you want to be a CEO series, Management asked global head-hunter and highly experienced executive search consultant, John Peebles, for his advice to leaders wanting to move into the C-Suite. What do you believe are the three most pivotal things young leaders can do to enhance their career? Show a willingness to listen and learn. Understand it’s about the people – customers and colleagues. Focus on the essen ..read more

New Zealand’s Stuff Group has been awarded a global prize for business transformation at the International News Media Association (INMA) awards, almost four years after its management buyout from Australian owners. In an entry to INMA’s Best Innovation in Newsroom Transformation category titled “Consciously Uncoupling”, the separation of Stuff Ltd in 2023 into distinct businesses beat entries from major media groups including the UK’s The Times and Sunday Times and the Irish Independent. A statement from the company says that separating Stuff’s large teams of multimedia journalists into two se ..read more

Few people enjoy holding ‘difficult’ conversations in the workplace, but there are approaches you can take that make these conversations easier and ensure the other party feels understood. By Kate Kearins.  I have lost count of how many times a colleague has said they’d like to do a course on holding ‘difficult’ conversations. Though some are, no doubt, already skilled in having such discussions, few (if any) colleagues seem to relish this kind of interaction. I have also heard references to ‘honest’ conversations (surely, we’re not having dishonest conversations at work?), as well as ‘gr ..read more

The Financial Markets Authority – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko – has appointed Louise Unger to join its executive leadership team as executive director for response and enforcement. The authority says that Unger joins the FMA from the Commerce Commission, where she is the general manager of the credit branch leading the team that regulates the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, as well as a member of the senior leadership team. Prior to joining the commission, she specialised in risk and compliance at Lawyers on Demand NZ, an international law firm. Louise Unger The FMA says she has s ..read more

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is continuing its exploration of a central bank digital currency and is now consulting on the proposed design features. Director of Money and Cash, Ian Woolford, says the bank is calling this ’digital cash’. “It would be a new type of money in addition to the banknotes and coins we have today, and the electronic money in your bank account.” He says in a statement that digital cash would ensure that central bank money is available to all New Zealanders and able to be used digitally. “It would also help enable a money and payments system that is i ..read more

New employees don’t know what they don’t know. Helena Cooper-Thomas offers ideas on how organisations can help their new people get up to speed quickly. How can you help your organisation’s newbies get up to speed in the first three months and become productive, engaged, and contributing employees? It may seem obvious that managers need to provide information to new employees about their responsibilities, but simple things often get taken for granted or overlooked, leaving new employees uninformed about what is expected of them and unsure about who to ask. … a new employee recounted being rep ..read more

Most leaders understand the importance of privacy and the need to protect and respect sensitive information, but perhaps there is less awareness about the benefits that good privacy practices can bring. By Privacy Commissioner, Michael Webster. Respecting privacy is as much about driving business success as it is about taking steps to avoid harm. Most managers understand the importance of privacy and how they need to protect and respect sensitive information about their organisation, staff, and clients, but there is less awareness about the benefits that good privacy practices can bring.  ..read more