It is often said that we learn more in tough times than we do in good times, that “what doesn’t kill you, will make you stronger”, that “we live in interesting times” and such like – one might suggest these one liners are designed to encourage us to endure those tough moments we all experience […]
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Meridian Energy chatted to Dairy Woman of the Year 2019, Trish Rankin, to get her take on how to make moving farms smooth sailing. Where to from here? When you know you need to move, think about what’s important for your next farm: not just the hectares, but the home and community that comes with
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One of the unexpected pleasures I had whilst in lockdown was judging New Zealand’s Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year. As a past judge, I had initially been approached by the Dairy Women’s Network but had fended them off on the basis that I was ‘too busy’ doing other ‘very important things’ within the leadership
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It was nearing the end of the season and this day was an especially hard day, I was packing up the house, that my ex and I had shared together, we were splitting what was his and hers into different trailers. We had water issues at the cowshed and everything was just getting a little
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The past year And the winner of the 2019 Dairy Woman of the Year is Trish Rankin. Mike Cronin (Fonterra) blew me away when he said that. You see, I’d settled in to enjoy my night with my sister, kicked off my shoes and had a wine or two with the team from Kellogg/Nuffield and
Succession – a 1000 mile journey Succession is a journey with many twists and turns. As the Chinese philosopher Laozi said, “a journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step”. Although not part of Laozi’s quote, I imagine he assumed the first step would be in the right direction, as if not, the journey
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Stepping Up Pick up the ball and get Excited I had the good fortune to be coached by the well known Duncan Laing whilst playing rugby for Pirates Football Club in Dunedin during the early 1990’s. While Duncan was world famous as a swim coach and in particular swim coach of double gold medal Olympian
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Stepping Up Does your team have a Voice to listen too? “Leaders need to listen” is an often-coined phrase. My experience is that it is difficult to listen when team members are not speaking. Perhaps leadership is more about creating an environment where individuals have a voice? It is inspiring what ideas are spoken in
The Safe Zone While it may seem entirely logical and in the spirit of a great family environment, what day, time or location is it really comfortable to ask the question of your brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, spouse, son or daughter “so what is it that you want from life, what
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