Announcements
Rob Hines reported on the trip undertaken by himself, Roy Garrett and David Jones to visit the RCCMS school projects in Laos, including the opening ceremony for the latest project in Ban Buam Aor. He also presented the club with a banner from the Rotary Club of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.
Herb Greenwood reminded members of the Craft Beer and Wine Event on April 16th, including opportunities for those not attending to participate in the wine auction.
Anne King advised the club of the social event “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” on May 21st, 2016.
President George reported that Mik Wells has reported in from Phillip Island where he is busy establishing his new accommodation venture.
He also reminded members of Café Internationale at International House on May 7th. [See later article in Bulletin]
Clean Water Report
Tony Thomas spoke on the various projects that Rotary has in developing countries around clean water projects. A number of other members, including Roy Garrett, reported on similar projects including the club’s latest effort to provide a new water supply to Ban Buam Aor in Laos.
Guest Speaker
Aged Care Today, Aged Care and Health Care Tomorrow… Where customer choice and market forces rule
Michael Goldsworthy is widely known throughout Australia for assisting boards, chief executive officers and executive/senior management teams of not for profits in governance, strategy, amalgamations, mergers and partnerships.
Over the last 26 years Michael has worked with over 6,000 community businesses (not for profits) throughout Australia, working within a framework of transformational change, strategic planning and project management. During this time he has also undertaken 258 amalgamations and mergers.
Michael spoke on the current and emerging/future big picture of the human services industry and the challenges facing leadership teams (boards, chief executive officers and executive/senior management teams).
He remarked on the paradigm shift from a welfare to a market framework; the need for people and organisations to change in response and the opportunities for new services and products. He observed that the major growth was in the home care sector with more people aging in place. Residential care was growing less in absolute numbers and moving more to a sub acute health care service. The opportunity in this sector is to start providing aged care allied health and medical services.
Not for profit providers will need to adapt to these changes and innovate to compete with the growing private , for profit providers.
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