In my first letter to the membership as President, I’d like to thank you all for attending our AGM and making Whistler an exceptionally strong and profitable event for the association. Maximizing member, non-member and supplier participation in the conference is a key component to the WCTA’s day-to-day operating formula and we appreciate the great support!
In Past President’s messages, I felt it important to try and diversify the topics and to raise issues that need to be addressed.
As this will be my last message as President, I would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the staff and Board of Directors of the WCTA. This is a group of dedicated and involved individuals from all areas of the golf and sports turf management industry, working together to assist the membership.
Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce or create something.
Just by definition, the word collaboration shows us the power of producing an end result through the work of many. When you think about the work of the Environmental Advocacy Committee and its collaboration with all the main partners on the Pesticide issue, collaboration was the key to creating an outcome that will help the Golf and Sportsturf management industry move forward in a positive and professional manner.
Last week, I was fortunate to pick up a magazine in the doctors office. The magazine had nothing at all in common with the turfgrass industry but the content of the article brought me back to thinking about how two different industries can collaborate and create an opportunity or advancement when there wasn’t one before.
Read more: From the President - Innovation through Collaboration
There has certainly been no predictability to the weather this spring but as professional turfgrass managers, we all know the best laid plans are only as good as Mother Nature allows them to be. Adaptability is what we are!