10 Sep 2025
Strengthening our team and our expertise
For RMCG's 2025 combined staff meeting, our team headed to Anglesea, Victoria for three days of learning, planning and networking.
With over 80 of our staff working in six offices and remotely across Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland, RMCG’s annual combined staff meeting is an invaluable time for our team to meet in person, get to know each other and the work that underpins our business, and ensure we continue working together effectively to deliver meaningful and impactful projects for our clients.
This year’s conference focused on building on our strengths, connecting with each other and reflecting on our approaches to the work we do – as individuals, as teams, and as an organisation. With the natural beauty of Anglesea as a backdrop, we learnt more about the diverse expertise of our staff and projects across agriculture, the environment, water, resource recovery, communities, economics and land use planning.
In an Anglesea ‘project showcase’, our team ventured outdoors to witness our recent work in the local area. The featured projects highlighted the multi-disciplinary knowledge of our staff – from estuary management in the wake of environmental threats, the feasibility of using recycled water to fill a decommissioned coal mine and the diverse flora, fauna and ecosystems that make up Anglesea’s heathlands.
During the conference, staff also shared their insights, experiences and lessons from large-scale and complex projects. This included:
- The challenge of designing, developing and delivering farm business resilience training both face to face and online in Tasmania
- Analysing the agricultural production potential of farmland and its compatibility with renewable energy infrastructure
- The importance of making mistakes – and learning from them – to improve our project delivery and collaboration with each other and our clients.
As a business we are always looking to work more effectively and support our staff, so the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and diversity and inclusion were key discussion points during the conference.
We held robust discussions on the fine balance of using AI to increase efficiency and test new ideas while managing the risks and challenges involved in this emerging space to maintain the integrity of our work.
Our team also shared our progress in making RMCG a more inclusive place to work, from flexible working arrangements to recent updates to our employee bargaining agreement. We also brainstormed what more could be done to meet current and future staff needs, and continue strengthening this area of the business.
A special thank you to Melissa Ludeman, Daryl Poole and our Business Support Team who worked tirelessly to organise the logistics and make the conference happen!
