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February General Meeting Minutes

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General Meeting

12 February 2025
Held at Lakeside Golf Club Camden

The meeting was opened at 6.30pm

Welcome & President’s Report – Roland Blackstone, President

Roland welcomed everyone to the meeting including Life Member Adriana Care, President of Wollondilly Business Chamber, Pania Gregson, former President TGNBC Anne Parnham, and guest speaker Kevin Sheedy AO.  He also welcomed all members, their guests to the meeting.

Roland provided an update of what events and meetings he had attended during the past month.

Apologies

Tony Perich AO & Cathy Perich – Greenfields Developments
Mark Tutt – Carrington Care

Membership Update – Tony Bonanno, Director Membership

New member introductions

  • Avewood Pty Ltd t/as Alseal
  • HR Consultancy Group Pty Ltd
  • Quality Spill Solutions & Services Pty Ltd
  • skinnyIT
  • Victress Connection Ltd

A challenge has been introduced – How do we get more people, growth plan.  5 tickets per meeting will be issued by Tony for you to bring a guest.

Sponsorship Update – Jason Haworth, Director Sponsorship

Silver Sponsors               Kelly+Partners Chartered Accountants

InKind Sponsor               Alpha IT
                                       Private Drivers Online

What’s On – Rachel Elliott, Director Events

15 February              Kids of Macarthur, Charity Auction
6 March                      Camden Council International Women’s Day Gala
11 March                   Victress Connection International Women’s Day dinner
18 March                   CareFlight Movie Night
23 March                   Lift the Lid Walk, Rotary Clubs of Macarthur
9 April                         Rotary Club of Gregory Hills Next-Gen Golf Day

Camden Council Update – Nicole Street

Networking Break

Speaker Presentation

Kevin Sheedy AO – Inspiring Leadership: Building Strong Teams for a Motivated Future

  • Chase knowledge and share it
  • People who taught me to be a person
  • Here to unblock your brains
  • We make errors, but pick yourself up and keep going
  • Find good people and stick with them
  • Have a great plan and connect it
  • Observation
  • You don’t know what your business can be yet
  • Find the gold nuggets in your business
  • Creating what you can’t see
  • Create a conversation to get their interest “I think I can help you”
  • Unlock the wonderful intelligence inside us
  • Attitude – positive
  • Happiness
  • Delete angry people
  • Balance and try to grow
  • Don’t be afraid to dream
  • Take on the challenges
  • It’s what you’re not doing
  • Think about what other people are thinking about
  • Book – 6 Coloured Hats by Edward de Bono
  • Resilient
  • Learn from history – Know where we are going
  • Look for the gold nuggets you can see yet
  • Movie – Race – story of Jesse Owens
  • Horse – Bel Merci

Q&A session

  • Rob Elliott – biggest difference in how coaching’s evolved
    • How can we look at a better game for kids.  Connect with the people you’re wanting to move with
  • Mohammed – ideas where businesses can collaborate
    • Try and do 1 thing without politics coming into it
  • Anne Parnham – Hire and retaining staff / culture
    • Culture starts with the people at the top, sports connects, business connects

Lucky Door Prize

William Tree (ACFIT) – Kelly+Partners wine and book
David Johnson (Finance 4 Growth) – Kelly+Partners wine and book
Nicole Fox (Fox & Co Finance) – Kelly+Partners wine and book
Malcolm Sutton (Mitronics) – $100 Private Drivers Online voucher

Closing Remarks – Roland Blackstone

  • Roland thanked everyone for attending and especially Kevin Sheedy for tonight’s presentation.
    Thank you to all the sponsors and the InKind Sponsors.
  • The next meeting will be on Wednesday 12th March at The Woodlands Harrington Grove with Mayor Cr Ashleigh Cagney on “The Time is Now”.

There being no further business, the meeting was closed at 8.45pm.