The bar was raised through audience participation when the Australian Forest Contractors Association conducted its latest “Business is Different Now” workshop in Bunbury early in October. Source: Timberbiz
Another good crowd of over 60 participants attended the workshop that was the fifth in the series that AFCA is presenting across the country.
It was again linked to the ForestWorks “Innovation Skills Program” and chief executive officer Michael Hartman led another informative discussion on how to innovate and therefore improve productivity and profitability.
Audience participation in two interactive sessions ensured lively debate with many ideas coming forward in relation to how best to innovate in our industry.
A common theme throughout each session was to highlight the need for everyone along the supply chain to make a conscious effort to work together to ensure a prosperous future for wood in Australia.
Once again Dallas Frost, principal director of Crowe Howarth Accountants in Launceston, presented an informative and thought-provoking session, highlighting the need to accept that change is upon us and to embrace it, and Timber Trades Industry Associations Brian Beecroft identified both the most asked and most unusual questions that rear their heads in the industrial relations field.
The Q & A panel session at the end of the day was made up of speakers from across the timber industry in Western Australia
Further “Business is Different” workshops are planned for Coffs Harbour, NSW, on Thursday 21 November, and in Queensland at a venue to be arranged before the end of the year.
