This month, I found myself in the middle of three very similar conversations with sign shop owners, all about the same thing: losing a job to another shop and watching the client get something… well… far less than ideal.
When we talk about health and safety, the conversation usually goes straight to working at heights, manual handling, or staying safe on-site. But there’s another kind of risk that’s just as real and far less talked about: burnout, and it doesn’t just affect your team. It affects owners, managers, and business leaders too.
The last month has been a whirlwind of activity as we ran and subsequently recovered from the biggest events in the industry calendar – the 2025 Sign Makers Conference and Awards of Excellence.
Fifteen sign shops were presented with their official Master Sign Maker plaques at the 2025 NZ Sign Display Awards of Excellence in Nelson on 14 June.
I’m still coming down off the high that was the 2025 National Signmakers Conference and the NZ Sign & Display Awards of Excellence. What an incredible few days we had together.
With the countdown to our conference, 60th Birthday celebrations, and our Awards of Excellence function on the 14th June quickly running out of days, this is the last time that have the opportunity to write my notes for the Presidents post.
And just like that we’re in June and the NZ Sign Conference and Awards of Excellence are only days away! This year is really flying by fast, mentally I’m still in January though the dark evenings keep reminding me I am not.
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As I write this, the seasonal changes around the country really seem to be hitting us in full force. Major flooding in Christchurch, snow to 700m in Canterbury, the windiest storms in Wellington in over a decade.
