Saluting the admin team
A day to recognise administrative staff will be observed next month. AdmiNZ Waikato has delivered a series of professional development networking events over the past five years including The Power of Flow, Leadership Strategies, Change Management, Emotional Agility, Personal Efficiency, Building a Personal Brand and Public Speaking.
Now it is gearing up for a breakfast to celebrate its members – ranging from receptionists to executive assistants – on what it has tagged Administrative Professionals’ Day on April 24.
“Over the years we have seen great support by local employers who give their administrators the opportunity to attend and celebrate; however, there are still many that are not aware of this local event,” recently appointed Executive Office Cris Armstrong said. “Face-to-face events provide an opportunity for all administrators to network with likeminded people and to grow connections, a key element to business success.”
About 60 members are expected, and a guest speaker was being lined up as this edition went to press. The organisations has more than 400 members across the country.
AdminNZ has two tickets to give away for the event. To be in the running email waikato@adminz.org.nz and put Waikato Business News in the subject line.
On the move
Kelvyn Eglington has moved to Craigs Investment Partners as their general manager following six years as chief executive of Momentum Waikato Community Foundation. Simon Wickham has taken on the foundation role.
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- Simon Wickham
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- Kelvyn Eglington
Chat GPT workshop
Two Cambridge business people have formed a company to run two-hour workshops on the last Wednesday of every month on ChatGPT for New Zealand organisations. Jamie Moore and Jeremy Suisted of Mosaic Partners take business leaders from 0 to 1 with ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology that allows people to have human-like conversations with a chatbot.
New gig
Richard Briggs
Former Hamilton City Council boss Richard Briggs has been appointed chief executive at Hamilton law firm iClaw. After he left the council two years ago, Briggs worked as an independent consultant focussing on strategy development and execution, best practice governance frameworks, corporate structuring and executive coaching.
Tim’s back
Tim Macindoe, who was the Hamilton West MP for years, points to his National Party colleague Tama Potaka’s car. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Former National Party MP Tim Macindoe easily won the city council’s Hamilton East by election last month. He replaced Ryan Hamilton, who was elected to parliament in October. Macindoe received 5874 votes, 3666 ahead of Leo Liu, who received 2208 votes. Turnout was low with just 22 percent (12,475) of eligible voters going to the polls.
