Conference 2021 Overview

AdmiNZ 2021 conference programme

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Mid Thomas – What’s you Why?

Your ‘why’ should make you cry. Mid has us all crying by sharing her story of growing up with abuse. She described her journey as defining who she is today, living for today, and recognising that the future is a guiding light to help navigate the ‘now’ acknowledging that we need the dark to appreciate the light. Learn from the past but don’t be bound by it.

How do we find our ‘why’ – we dig deep and it’s ok with not being perfect. Finding your why provides clarity so you can see where you are going. Goals are like holding a balloon, it may move in a different direction – float with it.

Mid’s final message was to live in the moment – keep reminding yourself and remember it’s not always the big things that make a difference.

Dr Bex Bell – Be a Boundary Boss

Bex shared the top five regrets of the dying – they weren’t “working harder” or “making sure that report was finished by working in the weekend”. Setting your boundaries will prepare you to live the life you want and sharing it with those people in your life who matter the most.

Being a boundary boss can be uncomfortable so Bex provided some great tips which you will also find on her presentation but highlighted below are some that were outstanding.

Boundary Boss Workbook - Dr Bex Bell

B – Belief in your ability to change the bluepint if the current one is not working. Believe in your potential.

O – Ownership – it’s up to you how you write the instruction manual of how people treat us.

U – Upholding boundaries with yourself before upholding them with others

N – Nurturing yourself through the discomfort

D – Dancing with uncertainty of how the boundaries will be received

A – Acceptance – be willing to approach with curiosity not expectations of perfection

R – Reminders – why are you willing to get uncomfortable to set boundaries, ie your why

Y – Yell it from the rooftops and celebrate your right to protect your why.

B – Building a very deep self-awareness – it’s difficult to set boundaries if you are not aware

O – Orientating to empowering Boundary Boss beliefs – what am I believing to be true to myself, is this eating me up for my extraordinary life?

S – Set a boundary intention and speak it. If you don’t express it how will affect your extraordinary life?

S – Stand strong by your boundaries, regardless of other peoples response.

Gail Page – Health Workplace Relationships

What part are we playing in creating the workplace relationships?

Remember, noone can make you feel anything that you don’t want to feel. It’s all about how we choose to fee.

We all have choices about how we feel – remember the feeling of being disempowered? Feeling empowered is a choice.

Sherie Pointon – Leadership

Sherie provided an interactive workshop session which followed up on her webinar. It was really insightful to see just how we perceive ourselves. Each table was tasked to write down what described a good leader – as it turns out, and not really surprisingly, administrators have a lot of those leadership characteristics - we are leaders!

Ben Brown - Sustainability

Ben is from Zespri and provided an oversight of how Zespri are working to become more sustainable. I didn’t realise we had an ‘Earth Overshoot Day” In 1968 it was one year, since then it has been getting shorter, this year being 29 July globally. In New Zealand the overshoot date was 15 May! This means we consume more than we can sustain and we need to make changes.

We got thinking about how as AdmiNZ we could become more sustainable. I will provide some more details on this later but individually what can you do to become more sustainable?

Deborah Workman – Conquering Negativity

We have 90,000 thoughts per day. 80% of these are from the past and/or negative.

Misery loves company so when you are hearing negative comments, stay quiet and don’t feed it.

Create happiness around you and be courageous to act confidently as it doesn’t come naturally to most.

Prioritise self-care and give yourself permission to be yourself. No compararititis (made up word)!

Remember that no one is ‘broken’ – it is your belief that someone needs ‘fixing’

Set your intentions for the day and try LSD (not the drug) – Laughing – Singing – Dancing.

Deborah left us with these quotes:

“Life begins at the end of our comfort zone” - Neale Donald Walsch

“Fear is excitement without with breath” - Gay Hendricks

Panels

We were thrilled to have members participate in our two panel discussions.  It was incredible to hear the journeys that these exceptional women have been on and to share in their expertise and experiences.