22-07-2017, 08:44 AM
From WIA News fro 22nd July 2017:
Greetings from WIA VICE PRESIDENT David Ford, VK4MZ
As we near the end of the first 60 days since the Annual General Meeting, and our first 60 days as a new board, we’ve experienced a lot.
Today I would like to make a few announcements, and talk about what I call, the WIA’s 4 steps to success.
Those steps are:
Step 1 Understand & Maintain
Step 2 Build capability and get ready for change
Step 3 Build a roadmap for success
Step 4 Achieve
Let’s talk about those steps in more detail
Step 1 - Understand & maintain:
In the 60 days since the AGM, I’ve by far spent more time with clubs where I am not a member than with my home club in Redcliffe in QLD. Over that time, I’ve had the absolute fortune of being able to present awards to Amateurs with decades of experience supporting the hobby (much more than I), I’ve heard and discussed challenges, I’ve spent many hours and days hearing about the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for individuals, clubs and the industry. I’ve spoken to commercial entities that support hamfests and the hobby, I’ve heard concerns, I’ve heard opportunities for improvement and I’ve heard what the WIA should keep on doing.
Within those 60 days the board has been holding its responsibility to ensure that the business as usual activities of the WIA do not falter, and that the wheels of the WIA keep on turning.
Yes, there are opportunities for improvement and opportunities to take th organisation to the next level. We’re getting ready to address them.
So the wheels are still turning, but what’s next? Business journals talk of the critical nature of organisational transition in the first 90 days. While the board has been listening, and guiding the WIA’s wheels to still turn, we’ve been setting up the building blocks for our next steps.
Onto Step 2 – Build Capability and get ready for change:
The idea of doing something for free and volunteering to many might sound strange. We orient ourselves on success and profit, people possessing honed professional skills, and being able to “sell” these skills. However, the value of volunteering strongly depends on how you look at it. For instance, volunteering is one of the greatest examples of how a job can pay off not with just money.
If you can work with a team of volunteers and help them discover a love for what they do, without money, you know you’re doing well.
I’ve been lucky enough to coach a few people through their careers and volunteering is the advice that I give to many. Volunteering is how my career started, and it has been a catalyst in driving my career shifts.
Although it may sound paradoxical, volunteering is one of the easiest ways to build a career. After graduating, many get stuck trying to find work but needing work experience. Statistics show 73% of employers would prefer to hire a person with volunteering experience in their chosen field. 94% of employers share the belief that volunteering helps potential employees obtain new skills and diversifies their abilities. In addition, 94% of people who were hired after a volunteering experience say volunteering aided them in getting their job, or benefited them in other ways, such as a quicker promotion, salary increases, or obtaining new skills. Having relevant work experience obtained during volunteering and specifying it in your C.V. can be a kick-starter for your career, because nowadays more and more employers tend to count volunteering almost as valuable as actual work experience.
So, if you still think you do not have time to volunteer because you need to look for a job, or because volunteering could be a nuisance to your ability to grow your career. You might want to reconsider.
If you want to demonstrate responsibility, compassion, and how one person can make a difference by personally participating or working as a team and solving problems, you should volunteer. Of course, through volunteering, you can find a lot of useful contacts, resources, and activities for your whole family.
Interestingly volunteering is good for you, a recent study of more than 600 volunteers found that in most age groups 63% of people said that volunteering reduced their stress levels. And, about 48% of those who volunteered during the last two years felt relief in terms of finding a purpose and that volunteering assisted their overall mental health.
Volunteering is also a great opportunity to accelerate your career, or become recognised for your achievements and knowledge. It is an opportunity to give back and see the good that you can do for the community. It is an opportunity for many to leave a legacy.
The WIA is mostly a volunteer organisation.
Many of the activities and services we want to provide rely on committees and volunteers. The capability of the WIA to move forward rests in its ability to attract, reward and recognise volunteers. Without volunteers, we can’t move forward.
The WIA needs you!
Today, it is my profound pleasure to announce that in partnership with volunteer.com.au we launch an open, inclusive and transparent volunteer recruitment process. By the time you hear or read this news, five new positions for the Strategic Advisory committee have been advertised publicly. The advertisements will be in place until the Strategic Advisory committee has a full complement of seven members. And that is five new positions joining Brian Clark and myself on the committee.
In future, should there be vacancies for the strategic advisory committee then positions will be readvertised in an open, inviting and inclusive manner.
But that’s not all, in addition to the strategic advisory committee a Privacy & Complaints officer position is also available. If you would like to build your experience, or you have significant experience in leading compliance agendas and would like to be recognised for your excellence, then register your interest today.
You will be able to find WIA volunteering opportunities via:
- The WIA’s website
- The WIA’s BRAND NEW Facebook page – I “like it” and you should too
- and both the WIA website and the Facebook page will direct you to the WIA’s new presence on volunteer.com.au where you can register your interest in a volunteer position.
Keep an eye on the WIA website, its Facebook page and volunteer.com.au as more opportunities will be advertised in the coming weeks.
So, as we build the capability of the organisation and, in turn have teams of specialised volunteers standing by, then what?
Well, that takes us onto Step 3 of transition - building a Roadmap for success and it’s happening soon. Next week the board will begin internally trialling a survey which will help guide the WIA’s product mix. This is the mix of products and services that the WIA will offer going into the future.
On the 6th of August, the survey will be made available publicly.
With the formation of the strategic advisory committee, the capability build up from Step 2 and the results of the product mix survey along with other ongoing consultation work, we build our roadmap and form our strategic direction.
And In step 4, Achieve, we bring it all together
With our new-found capability, our strategic direction, our opportunities in front of us, our threats mitigated and a strong and capable organisation at the ready. We achieve.
So that’s a transition process summarised in four steps.
What comes next is up to you to shape.
Enjoy the journey and register your interest in volunteering whenever you can.
This has been David Ford, VK4MZ, the institutes Vice President.
( To register your interest in assisting the WIA as its Privacy
(& Complaints) Officer please visit
https://www.volunteer.com.au/opportunity/details/104239 )
To register your interest in joining the WIA Strategy Committee
please visit
https://www.volunteer.com.au/volunteerin...ty/104280/
Greetings from WIA VICE PRESIDENT David Ford, VK4MZ
As we near the end of the first 60 days since the Annual General Meeting, and our first 60 days as a new board, we’ve experienced a lot.
Today I would like to make a few announcements, and talk about what I call, the WIA’s 4 steps to success.
Those steps are:
Step 1 Understand & Maintain
Step 2 Build capability and get ready for change
Step 3 Build a roadmap for success
Step 4 Achieve
Let’s talk about those steps in more detail
Step 1 - Understand & maintain:
In the 60 days since the AGM, I’ve by far spent more time with clubs where I am not a member than with my home club in Redcliffe in QLD. Over that time, I’ve had the absolute fortune of being able to present awards to Amateurs with decades of experience supporting the hobby (much more than I), I’ve heard and discussed challenges, I’ve spent many hours and days hearing about the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for individuals, clubs and the industry. I’ve spoken to commercial entities that support hamfests and the hobby, I’ve heard concerns, I’ve heard opportunities for improvement and I’ve heard what the WIA should keep on doing.
Within those 60 days the board has been holding its responsibility to ensure that the business as usual activities of the WIA do not falter, and that the wheels of the WIA keep on turning.
Yes, there are opportunities for improvement and opportunities to take th organisation to the next level. We’re getting ready to address them.
So the wheels are still turning, but what’s next? Business journals talk of the critical nature of organisational transition in the first 90 days. While the board has been listening, and guiding the WIA’s wheels to still turn, we’ve been setting up the building blocks for our next steps.
Onto Step 2 – Build Capability and get ready for change:
The idea of doing something for free and volunteering to many might sound strange. We orient ourselves on success and profit, people possessing honed professional skills, and being able to “sell” these skills. However, the value of volunteering strongly depends on how you look at it. For instance, volunteering is one of the greatest examples of how a job can pay off not with just money.
If you can work with a team of volunteers and help them discover a love for what they do, without money, you know you’re doing well.
I’ve been lucky enough to coach a few people through their careers and volunteering is the advice that I give to many. Volunteering is how my career started, and it has been a catalyst in driving my career shifts.
Although it may sound paradoxical, volunteering is one of the easiest ways to build a career. After graduating, many get stuck trying to find work but needing work experience. Statistics show 73% of employers would prefer to hire a person with volunteering experience in their chosen field. 94% of employers share the belief that volunteering helps potential employees obtain new skills and diversifies their abilities. In addition, 94% of people who were hired after a volunteering experience say volunteering aided them in getting their job, or benefited them in other ways, such as a quicker promotion, salary increases, or obtaining new skills. Having relevant work experience obtained during volunteering and specifying it in your C.V. can be a kick-starter for your career, because nowadays more and more employers tend to count volunteering almost as valuable as actual work experience.
So, if you still think you do not have time to volunteer because you need to look for a job, or because volunteering could be a nuisance to your ability to grow your career. You might want to reconsider.
If you want to demonstrate responsibility, compassion, and how one person can make a difference by personally participating or working as a team and solving problems, you should volunteer. Of course, through volunteering, you can find a lot of useful contacts, resources, and activities for your whole family.
Interestingly volunteering is good for you, a recent study of more than 600 volunteers found that in most age groups 63% of people said that volunteering reduced their stress levels. And, about 48% of those who volunteered during the last two years felt relief in terms of finding a purpose and that volunteering assisted their overall mental health.
Volunteering is also a great opportunity to accelerate your career, or become recognised for your achievements and knowledge. It is an opportunity to give back and see the good that you can do for the community. It is an opportunity for many to leave a legacy.
The WIA is mostly a volunteer organisation.
Many of the activities and services we want to provide rely on committees and volunteers. The capability of the WIA to move forward rests in its ability to attract, reward and recognise volunteers. Without volunteers, we can’t move forward.
The WIA needs you!
Today, it is my profound pleasure to announce that in partnership with volunteer.com.au we launch an open, inclusive and transparent volunteer recruitment process. By the time you hear or read this news, five new positions for the Strategic Advisory committee have been advertised publicly. The advertisements will be in place until the Strategic Advisory committee has a full complement of seven members. And that is five new positions joining Brian Clark and myself on the committee.
In future, should there be vacancies for the strategic advisory committee then positions will be readvertised in an open, inviting and inclusive manner.
But that’s not all, in addition to the strategic advisory committee a Privacy & Complaints officer position is also available. If you would like to build your experience, or you have significant experience in leading compliance agendas and would like to be recognised for your excellence, then register your interest today.
You will be able to find WIA volunteering opportunities via:
- The WIA’s website
- The WIA’s BRAND NEW Facebook page – I “like it” and you should too
- and both the WIA website and the Facebook page will direct you to the WIA’s new presence on volunteer.com.au where you can register your interest in a volunteer position.
Keep an eye on the WIA website, its Facebook page and volunteer.com.au as more opportunities will be advertised in the coming weeks.
So, as we build the capability of the organisation and, in turn have teams of specialised volunteers standing by, then what?
Well, that takes us onto Step 3 of transition - building a Roadmap for success and it’s happening soon. Next week the board will begin internally trialling a survey which will help guide the WIA’s product mix. This is the mix of products and services that the WIA will offer going into the future.
On the 6th of August, the survey will be made available publicly.
With the formation of the strategic advisory committee, the capability build up from Step 2 and the results of the product mix survey along with other ongoing consultation work, we build our roadmap and form our strategic direction.
And In step 4, Achieve, we bring it all together
With our new-found capability, our strategic direction, our opportunities in front of us, our threats mitigated and a strong and capable organisation at the ready. We achieve.
So that’s a transition process summarised in four steps.
What comes next is up to you to shape.
Enjoy the journey and register your interest in volunteering whenever you can.
This has been David Ford, VK4MZ, the institutes Vice President.
( To register your interest in assisting the WIA as its Privacy
(& Complaints) Officer please visit
https://www.volunteer.com.au/opportunity/details/104239 )
To register your interest in joining the WIA Strategy Committee
please visit
https://www.volunteer.com.au/volunteerin...ty/104280/
Doug VK4ADC @ QG62LG51
http://www.vk4adc.com
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If you have a comment or question, post it as it may trigger or answer the query in someone else's mind.