The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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and student bodies raising the
Mainfreight profile on campus.
What this has meant is we are now
being invited to speak at certain
lectures and to attend key events
to speak of our success and our
career paths.
Finding the right people is only the
beginning. We still need to help
them along the way with world
class training and we are currently
delivering this in both New Zealand
and Australia.
The training centre in Melbourne,
Australia delivered its first full
five-day Domestic induction course
in February this year. Here, teams
learn about our culture, our focus
on quality and on our focus of
delighting customers. The
Australian branches have been
huge supporters of the programme
and the feedback from those
attending to date has been
fantastic. The role of the Training
Centre is to give our new team the
understanding of what quality
means and where our high
standards rest. The challenge is
now for our Operations and Branch
Managers to ensure the
environments they return to, meet
and ideally raise those standards.
The success of this Australian
Training Centre has been a true
team effort with all
working incredibly hard to
make these courses
happen.
Plus a huge contribution
from Evan Pilcher who
has been joining the
Melbourne team from
Auckland each fortnight
to assist in the
operational delivery.
The New Zealand training
team is more established
than their Australian
colleagues in terms of
course delivery.
Therefore their challenge
is to ensure they are
constantly reviewing that
method of delivery and
content to ensure our
own high standards are
maintained.
A key part of this kiwi
team is about to leave our
family to start her very
own. Debi Fitzpatrick (or
Debi Cunneen to many),
has been part of the Mainfreight
family since she was old enough to
suck her thumb. Debs is a real
daughter of Mainfreight with her
late dad Terry being a Mainfreight
original and her mum Shirley still
working for our Logistics team in
Auckland.
L-R Back Row:- Tui Tipene, Joshua Simon, Evan Pilcher,
Chris Cammarano, Hamish Thomson, Steve Beaumont
Front Row:- Jason Plimmer, Maureen Kemp, Kate Lindsay,
Corine Emile, Gavin Butler, Marla Costabeber
Debs has worked throughout the
Mainfreight business and was a
pioneer of our first training team.
Debs has given so much of herself
to our family it is with excitement
we bid her farewell as she leaves
us (temporarily) to grow her own
family.
In today’s world, possible team
members are using different
mediums of communication to
research and learn. Prospective
team members wishing to find out
more about Mainfreight no longer
rely solely on friends and family. In
fact they no longer rely on passive
internet tools such as company
websites. The platform many
students now use is Social Media
and tools such as Facebook. Here
are some interesting facts. Did you
know it took: 38 years for Radio to
reach 50 million users; 13 years for
TV; 4 years for the Internet; 3 years
for the iPod...and less than 9
months for Facebook to add 100
million users.