from the president 11.11.2021
Reaching out and planning
F
irstly I’d like to shout out to all of our members in the Auckland, Northland and Waikato areas, our heart goes out to you guys. You’ve certainly had the short end of the stick with all the restrictions you’ve had to work under and try keep your hardearned businesses afloat.
I take my hat off to all of you and don’t forget to reach out to your fellow Master Joiner community for support if needed, you’d be surprised how much difference a phone call can make to someone who you know is struggling with all of this. In this digital age a text or email may be the quickest way to communicate but nothing beats a real phone conversation. Master Joiners are there to help in any way possible you just need to reach out. On a lighter note. Master Joiners recently reached out to a good cross section of our members to
attend an education retreat with the aim to better educate our members on the benefits of being a member of the association and to get a better understanding of what head office and the executive do to support our membership. This was the first exercise of its type and was rated a great success by all who facilitated and attended, so if you’re ever invited to attend one of these workshops in the future please don’t hesitate to put your hand up and participate. The only downside was that several participants from Auckland and Waikato were unable to attend due to covid restrictions but we plan to take this to them as soon as we are able to. Education plays a major role in our industry, from the importance of training apprentices without whom our trade would simply die to training ourselves on better business practices to training
our key staff in growing more knowledge about business the industry and better practices all of which will grow our own businesses. This leads into surrounding yourself with skilled staff which makes succession planning a much simpler process. Succession planning just like myself is not something we prioritise to prepare ourselves for until sometimes it's too late or you’re getting to a stage in your working life where you want to take a backwards step from the day to day grind and start passing the torch to the next generation coming through. This isn’t something you can start too early and we need to ensure we’re passing our knowledge down the chain because believe it or not you probably know a lot more than you give yourself credit for.
the world doesn’t actually end at Christmas and restart at New Years so those jobs you can’t get done can most probably wait until next year. Hope you all have a good break and forget about work and Covid for a while. Andrew Reilly National President Registered Mastered Joiners
That’s all from me, I hope you all have a good lead into the stupid season and just remember
May 19th – 21st 2022, Marlborough Events Centre, Blenheim JOINERS Magazine December 2021 page 4
