The Board blog You can only do so much with online meetings and, after 7 months apart, the Board and Operations Team recently went ahead with a physical meeting (in a well ventilated area in a private residence). active, and has started a website revamp, making it easier for clients to ‘Find a Fencing Contractor’.
Jaime will be contacting media companies regarding the supply of regular features
– starting off with a focus on what a great industry Fencing is to work in and its
many benefits, in an effort to attract some attention to our industry’s constant plight for workers.
Event planning Of course unfortunately there are many considerations at hand with our events and much thought and discussion has
been put into trying to accommodate the situation we have been dealt with in light
of the Government mandates, and working to deliver to all our members. With Mike Renner joining us on the
screen and our first physical meeting
with Jaime Bigwood (who joined us as
Communications and Marketing Manager
in October), it was a relief to be able to talk (socially distanced) face to face.
Operations Team changes We are currently working on a reshuffle of the support team at Fencing Contractors NZ.
Heather Kawan has stepped back from the Operations Manager role to concentrate solely on the WIRED. Heather has been an excellent and dedicated Operations Manager over the last two challenging
years and we will miss her effective Board management skills. We are delighted Heather will continue to produce the
WIRED magazine, to which she has already made significant improvements over the last 18 months.
Jeanette Miller is stepping up with some of the Board and meeting support. We have added the Events portfolio to
Jaime’s current Communications role, with Jaime having a strong events background. The Events portfolio includes –
Conference 2022, Webinar series, Best
Practice Days Roadshow in 2022, and the concept of industry awards and localised regional social get togethers.
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This leaves the Partners / Sponsorship side exposed so we have taken some of the hours that Heather has dropped and put them towards a Partnership Development Manager which we are now advertising for (see page 7). Ideally, we’re looking for someone with a working knowledge of the farming / fencing industry and who has a sales background to help capture the increased partnership categories that we have introduced: Retail – for those with a retail footprint; Brand – which covers a number of our existing partners; and Corporate services – targeting professional services that our members use / can benefit from.
Board changes Shaun Davies resigned from the Board at the beginning of February, with Members advised of the vacancy on 16th February and a Board Nomination process instigated. We look forward to introducing you to our newest Board member in the coming weeks. The Board would like to thank Shaun for his contribution and commitment to Fencing Contractors NZ.
Other activity Jaime has been working on getting to know our Gold Partners, keeping our FCNZ Facebook and Instagram page more
With industry event after event being cancelled we are planning for our
Conference with a Plan A and a Plan B. In
the meantime our proposed Best Practice Day Roadshow in the spring of 2022 will require some outside-the-box thinking
under the current circumstances, but we
hope things may have calmed down by the time the events actually roll around.
Webinar series With the view of assisting with your Professional Development we are
arranging a webinar series on various issues that you face as a Fencing
Contractor and small / medium business
owner. These will be held in the evenings
and we hope you will take an hour of your
month to take advantage of the learnings and guidance that will be available in these webinars.
Partners survey A Partners survey has just been sent out with regards to material price rises and
shortages – we look forward to using the feedback from our partners to support
one of our webinar topics (see page 30 for more information).
Those who took part in last year’s
Members survey were sent the results as a Christmas present. A useful tool providing industry insight, the next survey will be sent to members in late February.
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