July Entry: What, Free?! Too Good to Be True?

Recently, thanks to the Ministry of Social Development, CNA was able to offer financial support to all of our members and their members in turn to set their governing bodies with free Tick For Governance courses. Some groups jumped at the chance and are well on their way to enticing funders by being able to demonstrate their upskilling and competency by being awarded a governance qualification. 

It seemed a little weird to me that I had a lot of enquiries checking that this was legit and that it was for free. Until I realised that yes, if I got that in my inbox, I would’ve given it the side eye too! 

With so much communication going on in the world, (I always think of alien races getting headaches from what we are continuously transmitting into space), it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Let alone wondering if people know what wheat and chaff is these days 😉 

So how do we get this message of free courses across? What is the future? Will ChatGPT let us be able to write better email campaigns? Newsletters? Write better grant applications? 

I was very interested to read Afifa Saleem’s article on the latter. You can read that here.

Does this mean that we might be able to get our good ol’ ChatGPT to handle all that while we get on with the mahi. It’s an interesting idea, and certainly it might write a good start to an application but we all know you canna trust the tinman to do the final work! 

Just as we trust the humanity on a committee, or board, or trust to do the mahi with all the heart and diverse viewpoints they have. So, what better gift than to help them be the best governing body they can be. If you did get that email, it is a bona fide offer, and if you want to know more we may be able to make that deadline a little elastic. 

Give the gift of governance – it’s a present we can all enjoy.