Giving life to the new strategy

I hope by now you've all had a chance to digest the new PINZ Strategy which was announced by President Luke van den Broek at our July Conference.  It is available on our website, and has been circulated to all members.

Today I want to spend a little time talking about 'Priority 2' in the plan - 'Delivering Specialist Knowledge' because it's where you, our members, can play a huge part as we work together to deliver on the mission to make the Property Institute the natural 'Home of Property Professionals'.

We have a diverse range of professionals within our organisation and the disciplines of each unique group are different - although, of course, there are some commonalities which make us stronger together.

One of the things we're determined to get right in our drive for continuous service improvement is ensuring we have strong and resilient professional community councils that have their fingers on the pulse of their members needs and know what sort of things they require to become stronger professionals and realise their full potential.

In my time at PINZ, I have been fortunate to work with all our dedicated and committed community councillors, who sacrifice time and income to give something back to their colleagues and their industries.  But they often need new members, and most importantly feedback and ideas from our grass roots about what the priorities are and how we can add value to the work they're doing at the coalface.

In recent times these communities and members have helped guide our programme and is why we are seeing very positive feedback about a number of the things we are doing, but we can always do better, and that is my challenge to you all today.

If you think you have something to offer.  Some time, some good ideas, an understanding of what members really need - then get involved.  Contact your Branch, talk to a Professional Community Councillor, encourage another member to get involved.

One of my personal priorities is to enhance and expand our future leaders programme to promote more younger professionals into our decision-making along with greater diversity of backgrounds and fresh points of view.  

Nowhere is that more relevant and important than at our Branch level, because without building, nurturing and encouraging a resilient and successful Branch structure, PINZ can't reach its potential and neither will those who are investing their faith in the Institute to help them achieve their professional goals.

So do please think about giving something back to your profession.  As a membership organisation the Property Institute needs its volunteers, and its direction should be owned by its members.