Aspire eMag Issue #2 Sept 2014

Sept 2014

L D S B U SIN E SS & PROFE SSION A L N EW S NZ

Showanna Palaone

BUSINESS BUILDER

Ray Allen

LDS Church helping you get Training, build a Business or find a Job

Running 2 Gyms from Home

EDITOR Mark Fantham . PHOTOGRAPHER Peter Skulodek

11 Steps towards an effective job search

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IN THIS ISSUE:

04 LDS Business Association Board, Editor’s Note and Letter from Chairman 06 11 Steps Toward an

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08 Dream it, See it, Do it Showanna Palaone Business Builder

12 LDSBA & LDS Church are Working Together to Help You Monetise Your Passion

10 Ray has 2 Gyms and Runs them Both from Home

14 How to make 2015 Your Career and Business

lds business association board Laurence Day

Ryan Harris

lkday@internet.co.nz

ryanharris@gmail.com

Jennis Lawrence

David McKay

jennisl80@gmail.com

david@mantravision.com

LDS Business Association PO BOX 48164 Auckland 0600 info@ldsba.org.nz LinkedIn Twitter Facebook

Moses Armstrong

mosesarmstrong@ldschurch.org

disclaimer This eMag is produced by the LDS Business Association in New Zealand. It’s focus is to inform, motivate those of the authors or editor.

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letter from CHAIRMAN

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n 2012 a small group of LDS members trialed an entrepreneurial program (Launching Leaders) developed by BYU Hawaii business professor Jim Richie on a group of LDS young adults in Auckland and Hamilton.

many involved and a group of those involved in mentoring for the program got together later and formed the Latter-day Saint Business Association (LDSBA). Their aim was to both continue the Launching Leaders’ Program They wanted to encourage career, business and independence.

Last year Launching Leaders was again held in both Auckland and Hamilton with local support/volunteers.

Seminars were also held in Hamilton on topics such as, ‘How to start your own e-Business’ and ‘How to invest in property’.

This year, to date, we have been quiet but not idle. The church itself has inaugurated a new program called Self-Reliance with input from Jim Richie, and the church recently appointed Moses Armstrong as its National Director. Moses is also on the board of the LDSBA. Of late we have been looking at ways the LDSBA can be a practical resource to the Self-Reliance program going ahead. As part of the LDSBA’s outreach, Mark Fantham will be producing a regular newsletter for the association and through him we will be keeping you informed of upcoming LDSBA activities and events.

The LDSBA is all about using foundational gospel principles combined with good business and career strategies to underpin a balanced and successful life.

Regards Laurence Day

editor’s note I am grateful to be involved with the LDS Business Association. It’s fun to interview various LDS business people and professionals, to bring these stories to you.

They are ordinary people that serve the Lord and He helps them prosper. I hope this eMag provides you with the right motivation and resources to help you accomplish success. If you think we should feature someone or something in here please contact me by email.

1 Nephi 4:14 And now, when I, Nephi, had heard these words, I remembered the words of the Lord which he spake unto me in the wilderness, saying that: Inasmuch as thy seed shall keep my commandments, they shall prosper in the land of promise.

Mark Fantham Editor of Aspire eMag editor@ldsba.org.nz

SEND IN YOUR STORY If you think you have an interesting, uplifting story to tell, please email the editor at editor@ldsba.org.nz

Coping with Job Loss:

11 Steps towards an E 1

Find a coach. Allow others to help you. Identify and ask a friend or business associate to act as your jobsearch coach or mentor.

Interact with this person at least two times per week.

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Develop a search plan with your coach and then follow through.

Prepare a “Me in 30 Seconds” statement and share it with everyone you meet.

Be proactive. Do not sit at home and wait for the phone to ring with that

happen.

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Start the morning well.

Get up by 7:00 each morning, have breakfast with your family, revise your “to-do list,” and follow through.

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Get out of your house.

Tempting as it may be, do not sit at home in your pajamas searching the Internet for jobs until noon. only about 7% of all jobs are found through the Internet. Get up, get dressed for potential interviews, make all your calls by 9:00, and get out of the house by 9:30.

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minutes a day, 5 days per

endorphins into your system and helps you to maintain that positive attitude and high energy level so necessary to successful interviewing. Eat healthy meals.

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Apply for government assistance as appropriate.

apply for unemployment heating assistance, if you deem it appropriate.

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search as a job in and of itself. Then spend at least 30 to 40 hours per week conducting your search. If you do not put in the requisite time, you will be out of work for quite a while. Schedule a or walk-in company visits per week.

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Effective Job Search

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Smile. Laugh. Make

maintain your sense umor. No one wants to hire -tempered employees.

he house and meet with nts, networking contacts, ther resources at least e per week. Play with your dren and pets daily.

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temporary, parttime work. Think about taking a part-time job or consulting for companies in who are employed are more position you take, whether working below your skill level

relieve some of your pressure while you are job hunting.

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Dream it

See it

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wenty years ago I decided to use my early childhood

Education business. This was so successful that I wondered if I could replicate the process.

I did and now two decades

Showanna Palaone Business Builder

entrepreneur Showanna Palaone She goes on, “Basically we set

developer to purpose build a site for us according to the prevailing by-laws. From there it’s pretty

watching my parents working very hard for other people. I decided although I was a selfstarter like my parents, I didn’t want to work for someone else.

I wanted to be my own boss. So after working less than a year my vision was to become selfemployed thereafter.”

“If you can conceive it you can do it” Showanna adds. “You must be able to envisage your system.

I developed a system quite early

Do it! and I just worked it. My mum and dad were determined workers and they inspired me to ‘never give up and to stick at it.’

I can’t recall any particular time when we made a wrong turn or a bad decision in the last 20 years developing these early childhood centres. However, there was a brief stint where we tried to diversify into an unrelated line of business only to realise in the end we should just stick to what we knew, which was early childhood business and our winning formula.

My biggest inspiration would have to be my parents, whether it was to copy something they did, or it was to deliberately avoid something they did do, they taught me well. They had 15 kids were married 48 years and I call that successful.

One thing that is really important to me is having balance in my life. successful, I’d also like to be successful in other areas. I think it is also important to provide a good education for my own children and it gives me great satisfaction to see them take an interest in property development too.”

Ray has 2 Gyms

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fter my mission I wasn’t sure which way to go, vocationally speaking.

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professional rugby, so I took that. Unfortunately it wasn’t to last as I kept getting injured

the second one myself).

I didn’t know much about the

always looking out for other people with leadership skills too. The future for me is actually to learn even more about leadership. This is my great desire to lead and be forever learning.

more than on.

saw the similarities between missionary proselyting and selling new gym memberships e.g. membership categories: active, semi active and inactive and the various programs which are suited to those needs.

I also train new people to become leaders themselves.

I help them to become either gym instructors or managers.

They get to develop their skills in real life situations within the gym environment.

Then it was just a matter of systematizing what we wanted to happen. Around this time Laurence Day also recommended a book for me to read called The e-Myth. Reading this book was a pivotal part of my progress.

Thanks to the mentoring I got from the LDSBA I was able to go

I was feeling a bit down in the dumps about it all and my father in law Eddie Marshall gave me a book called Rich Dad Poor Dad. On reading it I realized that the information in the book was really key to any kind of business success I could have.

Once I learned the principles I knew I just had to practice them.

I left Uni and started work as a builder. I thought this was going to be how I would make my way I came across the business idea that Tyler Leith gave me.

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the owner of a gym. (I purchased

The church has provided opportunities for me to develop my leadership skills and I am

Ray Allen

Runs both from Home Pictured: Ray Allen centre with membership consultants

LDSBA & LDS Church to Help You

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he Church has a priority call to help all members gain meaningful education, employment and selfemployment.

This was not the case when us older guys came back from our missions. Many of us came home

has a full time Self Reliance Program run by Brother Moses Armstrong.

He visits with 31 Stake and District Leaders throughout the country to help them identify who might be in need of resource assistance particularly when it comes to earning a living. “Each stake and district will 12 aspire . Sept 2014

are Working Together Monetise Your Passion

have their own self reliance

1. Find better employment

education, employment and self employment. A person should go to their priesthood leader in the

2. Start a business

Moses left school and served in he came back and did a commerce degree at the University of Auckland with a focus on accounting and management studies. On graduation he worked in large multinational companies in accounting, operations and senior management roles.

Now, everyday Moses is helping Returned Missionaries and Local Leaders become more selfreliant by assisting them to:

Job?

3. Or gain access to better education/vocational options It’s a full-time paid position

-Lacking the Skills to get the Job

employers. He connects them with the appropriate LDS members using various tools like the website ldsjobs.org. On this these questions:

Help Unemployed Members?

-Not Making Enough Money?

Money?

-How Do I Find a Job?

-As a Quorum or Relief Society

-Is Your Business Struggling?

-Recent Graduate?

Employment Specialist?

Moses Armstrong mosesarmstrong@ldschurch.org

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