January 2025 Newsletter

Well its 2025, it’s been an awesome summer. Hot, so: good for the beach, windy for sailing, some swell for surfing.  What more could one want?

Despite, the distractions of the beach, there’s definitely a feeling of getting on with things at HydroTerra this year. Phil Mulvey of Environmental & Earth Sciences, reinvigorated, launched us into the new year with a mega webinar!  Two hours of wisdom about “Rethinking catchment management in response to climate change”.  An excellent topic and well attended. With all the fires, around, a timely topic indeed.

This year HydroTerra is looking to spring board through a tricky size of 36 people, suddenly management structures are important and middle managers required to grow our Market Place and our Monitoring Services Divisions. We have embarked on some leadership training to help us through this transition, this has been excellent. I’ve plagiarised a few words of wisdom: we’ve learnt what good leadership looks like and what’s not good:

Good Leadership

• Accountability
• Intention
• Responsibility

Not Good Leadership

• Blame & Leniency
• Excuses & Exoneration
• Defence & Shame

So, aim for Good Leadership this year! Do your best to avoid the not so good. I’ll do the same 😊. Most importantly, we’ve been reminded that we are all human! Welcome back and we hope you all have a great 2025.