Team Meeting - 29/01/07

On Monday 29th January, the team met for coffeee at Cino's for our second meeting for 2006, followed by dinner at Han's cafe in Subiaco.

Preparations are well underway with gifts almost finalised and team business cards and postcards being designed. Team memebers have started research in order to become experts in everything West Australian.

Everyone is looking forward to our trip down south to Dunsborough on the weekend of the 9-11th February. We will be busy preparing our presentation, as well as spending time getting to know each other better.

The next meeting (after the weekend down south) is on Sunday 25th February at 9am.

Team Meeting

The team got together on Sunday 14th September for breakfast and our first meeting of the new Year. With only 109 days till we depart there is a need to move things on.

The team is already very cohesive and want to ensure that the image portrayed is one of professionalism. All of the ideas are great and everyone is pulling their weight, which makes it very easy for a team leader.....

Uniforms have been decided with a meeting to decide on the blazers design to be held on Monday 29th Jan.

Gifts are being ordered and will be a great mix of Western Australian made products.

The team looked at last years presentation and came up with some ideas for how ours might look. On the weekend away in February we will be starting the development etc of the presentation.

March and april are going to be very busy with work, the US team and also our presentations to clubs prior to departure.

Next meeting is to be Monday 29th.

Gift Shopping

Suzanne and I (taking my mum along for the ride and my dog) went and invesitgated Kalamunda markets for their potential for good quality handmade gifts to take to the US with us.

The range of stalls was great and well worth a visit. I can see an outing in early February for more investigations to take place.

Seeing the types of things really brought home the need for a database kept by the District committee on the types of gifts with suppliers and which countries they were taken to and what the response was.

So part of what we do will be to do up templates and hints for organising the outbound side of the tour and who can be the suppliers etc.

Uniform Shopping & Upcoming meetings - January-February 2007

The team had an initial look at uniforms on Saturday, 25 November 2006. The team has decided to go for a modern look that will consist of a formal / business uniform as well as a more casual one. Dresses will be made for the girls.

Upcoming meetings for January and February include:
14 January 2007 - Meeting at Bec's house
28 January 2007 - tbc
9-11 February 2007 - Weekend away for bonding at Dunsborough
28 February 2007 - Location tba

Club Presentations

As part of our development and planning the team will visit each of the sponsoring clubs to present our presentation prior to departure.

The presentations will be approximately 20mins in total and feature information about each of the participants, their home and worklife as well as broad info about WA.

These will occur on:

4 April – Matilda Bay presentation (7am)
11 April – East Perth presentation (7am)
17 April – Western Endeavour presentation (7am)
19 April – Nedlands presentation (12 noon)

We plan on developing fact sheets and have books and information with us to showcase more of Western Australia and its uniqueness.

Involvement with USA Team

Our team will have a number of opportunities to spend time with the USA team whilst they are here in March. These include:


Thursday 15 March - Evening function with the US Consul and USA Team
Friday 16 March - Morning team with the Western Australian Governor and USA Team
Sunday 18 March - Both teams will spend time together in the morning and over lunch.


Other opportunities include farewell BBQ, conference and as time permits.