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Facing challenging times, with one eye on brighter days ahead
After a challenging summer overshadowed by the
bushfires that ravaged so much of Australia, we’ve
arrived in Autumn, only for coronavirus to occupy our
every waking moment. As I write, clubs and facilities in
Australia and New Zealand remain operational, along
with most other businesses, but the speed at which the
situation is evolving means that this is by no means a
certainty for the days and weeks ahead.
While businesses remain open it can be difficult
knowing how best to respond: we don’t want our people-
facing businesses to be drastically impacted, but we
must appreciate the valid concerns of clients, members
and staff. Reassurances that you are strictly adhering
to government recommendations pertaining to hygiene
and social distancing may help ease concerns to some
degree, but there is no doubt that we will all feel huge
repercussions, both personally and professionally. We
must put health and safety first, and, if we find ourselves
unable to go about business as usual, we can at least
use the enforced downtime to communicate with and
support our members and clients, and to work on, if not
in, our businesses.
This issue of Network features a number of articles
from industry leaders who were due to present at this
year’s FILEX Convention, which was scheduled to take
place in Sydney this May. As with other large gatherings,
the event has been postponed, literally as I am writing. As
the previous operators of the convention, we know first-
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hand how much blood, sweat and tears go into pulling
this remarkable event together, so we send our best
wishes to the FILEX team and hope that we are all able
to congregate and celebrate our industry at a later date.
Though they may no longer be presenting their
sessions to us in May, the features from FILEX presenters
in this edition are no less valid. Krista Popowych reflects
on a changing industry, Ish Cheyne urges us to take
everyday opportunities to ‘level up’ and Billy Polson
looks at the steps needed to differentiate yourself in a
sea of fitness professionals. Elsewhere, Lianne Tiemens
and Dom Gili explore the transferrable benefits of aqua
workouts, and Owen Bowling identifies the opportunities
available to clubs by integrating elements of AI into their
operations.
These will be the most challenging times many of us
have faced, but we will get through this: not unscathed,
and quite possibly changed in the way we operate, but
we are a resilient industry and brighter days will follow.
Stay safe, stay positive,
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