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Employing and Supporting a Chief Executive

Created: February 8, 2024 at 1:03 PM | Updated: February 4, 2025 | By NZ Navigator Trust

Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa provides advice and resources to help Boards employ and support their Chief Executives.

The resource includes topics covering:

  • Finding the right chief executive
  • Induction
  • Delegating to the chief executive
  • Relationship with the chair.

Supporting material

Approaches to documenting the board's delegation to the CEO (PDF 233KB)

Board-CEO relationship (PDF 176KB)

Chief executive performance criteria (DOC 72.0KB)

Chief Executive Performance Management - a three-part article on managing your greatest asset (and risk): Part 1PDF 159 KB), Part 2 (PDF 107 KB), Part 3 (PDF 118 KB), Issues 20-22

Chief executive's individual employment agreement (DOC 64.0KB)

Delegations and limitation policies (included in board charter) (PDF 74KB)

Eight basic expectations a chief executive has of his or her board (PDF 182 KB)

Letter of expectation to incoming chief executive (DOC 24.0KB)

Performance review form (simple) (DOC 52.5KB)

Selecting the right chief executive (PDF 191KB)

Simple risk register (DOC 515KB)

Six ways boards undermine chief executive accountability (PDF 189 KB)

You can also download the full version of Nine Steps to To Effective Governance.

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Suitable for organisations that are:

  • Developing
  • Established

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Employing and supporting the Chief Executive is a core role of the Board. This resource includes multiple resources to manage this relationship.

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