Mihi …
Tei Hei Mauri Ora
Te mea tuatahi
Te wehi te matua nui e te rangi
Te whare e tu nei
E marae kei waho nei
Tena korua, tena korua,
Firstly
The Breathe of Life
Spirit of the great father in the sky
Greetings to the big house (the building in which we stand in or beside)
Greetings to the surrounding land
Greetings to you both
Tena Koutou I o matou tini mate
Haere, haere, haere ki te po
E nga tini ora i roto tenei whare
Kua tae mae nei I tenei wa
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa
Greetings to the those who have past away
Farewell as you move to the next world
Greetings to the living spirit inside this building/house, to you the people in this building/house
Greetings, greetings, greetings to all
He mihi nui ki a koutou ki nga
Kaumatua I runga I te taumata
Mihi mai, mihi mai, mihi mai
Tena ra koutou katoa
Thank you to the speakers
Abundant greetings to you all
5 areas of insight
Les Mills is an NZ example of global business success
Started as a small business in New Zealand and became a international B2B brand distributed in over 105 countries and experienced by over 5 million people a week
They became successful by developing and licensing a model based on synching music and exercise and training rockstar teachers – a quality assurance group fitness experience
This is something most operators have their own freestyle version of… essentially we were convincing them to purchase ”a better version of themselves”
Very challenging in the beginning to engage, influence and convince
Prechoreography X
Barbell Training in an aerobic studio X
Licensing X
New Zealand ?
How did we overcome these obstacles?
Daniel Pink talks about… Attunement, Buoyancy ect…
So we applied these with
Product - Results
People – Passion, Warrior-like
Ongoing Innovation
Insights
Value Add
Cultural insights
Through the experience with Les Mills working on 4 continents we identified some key insights
Health and Fitness needs and wants are universal. Everyone wants to be healthier
Language plays a significant role in first impressions and consumer experience
Old works versus New World thinking ie EU versus USA
Purpose, Autonomy and Mastery outweigh money as complexity of role increases
Its becoming less about ethnic culture differences and more about age differences
Personal insights- Some key learning’s from building a global business
Be the brand or put someone consumer facing who is
Passion and purpose are critical to motivation
To scale you needs process and systems
Map the “customer” journey… increase the stickiness of the self service channels, arm frontline to ward off subsequent calls, experience engineering, frontline power
Sustainability is a mix of service and constant innovation
Customer service about being easy to do business with not delighting customers
Customer loyalty is driven by the sales experience (53%)
Everyone is in sales. 1 in 9 people are in formal roles, the other 8 spend 40% of their time in non sales roles selling by influencing
If you are franchising, slow deliberate selection of partners is critical, otherwise own the distribution channel100%. Check values alignment.
Research, research research.
New area for me personally…
Exciting to observe economic, social and cultural growth in Aotearoa
What are the 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050 goals?
Important to position clearly to the market what is the Maori component of the business proposition ie Ownership, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product, Cultural Experience
As you move toward the experience end of continuum authenticity of Tikanga and Te Reo become highest driver of performance which by implication means staff recruitment, training and retention.
At the other end of the continuum governance becomes the highest driver of performance which by implication means focus on principles, process, due diligence and staff recruitment, training and retention.
Worth considering what are the risks using this branding phrase with the wider NZ public and business community. Does it semantically infer exclusion of Non Maori?