Pinnacle welcomes you to EMA membership

Pinnacle is proud to announce we have partnered with EMA (Employers Manufacturers Association) to provide practice managers and owners with membership for one year, beginning 1 July 2022. 

We believe this will assist your practices in supporting and developing great work practices in the people management space. With the support and resources of EMA at your fingertips there will be an extra tool or two in the toolbox for managers and owners to help, particularly during these times of increasing workload pressure coupled with stretched capacity. 

EMA membership will empower people leaders within your practice to improve their knowledge and skills in a range of areas important to primary care.

• The basics of business structure and functions:
  • the roles and responsibilities of shareholders, board members, board chair and CEO
  • management responsibilities (financial, marketing, performance, human resources, health and safety, computers and technology)
  • defining purpose, goals and setting a strategy.
• Financial management:
  • reading a balance sheet, understanding profit, setting a budget and achieving financial goals
  • pros and cons of different practice ownership structures.
• Human resources:
  • improving team culture, performance, resilience and wellbeing
  • recruiting resources and retaining staff
  • employee, employer and contractor relationships, and when one is the best option over another.
• Change management:
  • implementing and embedding change
  • managing reactions to change, and detractors.
• Health and safety, including broader risk identification and mitigation.  

EMA will provide extensive suites of human resource, employer relations, people management, workplace health and safety resources online PLUS an AdviceLine for personal, direct help from experts. 

We encourage practice managers and owners to come along to a webinar to meet the team from EMA, hear more about the benefits of membership and understand how EMA can support your practice.

From 1 July practice managers and owners will receive a welcome email from EMA containing your login details to get started, along with a few key pointers of services and information you might want to check out. 

If you are an owner or manager and you do not receive an email from EMA please contact sam.yean@pinnacle.health.nz and she’ll get this sorted for you.

Member briefings

Attended by over 6,000 other committed business owners these targeted 90 minute briefings are held every four months, in over 30 different locations plus an online option. These sessions will keep you well informed and ahead of important legislative updates and changes. 

The winter session is coming up on 14 July, online. During this webinar, you will hear how the latest legislative and employment relations changes may affect your business, including the impact of the long tail of COVID-19, immigration, skill shortages, and the recent Budget announcement and how this affects New Zealand businesses and the economy. 

This briefing will cover:

• the 2022 Budget and the economic outlook for businesses
• the reopening of our border and the immigration rebalance from 31 July
• EMA’s people experience practice and skills shortage issues
• developments around the industry transformation plan (ITP) for advanced manufacturing and the impact on infrastructure and RMA reform
• Upcoming employment legislation including Fair Pay Agreements, the National Income Insurance Scheme and COVID-19 related mandates and case law. 

Adviceline

A free member only, confidential phone and email service designed to provide employers with up to date, clear, direct and practical advice on human resources, workplace health and safety, mentor guidance and business-related issues.

• Monday to Thursday, 8am - 8pm.
• Friday, 8am - 6pm.
• Free call NZ 0800 300 362. 

Legal services and consulting

EMA can help you throughout the employment relationship, every step of the way. The EMA team provides excellent service and real results - without the substantial fees. 

Online resources

A library of knowledge, tested in the courts and all in one place. Download from the member only templates covering a wide range of business related documents including workplace health and safety and employment relations. 

Business advocacy

Almost everything that impacts on your business is EMA’s business, and every day they’re working to make business go faster. The EMA team work for you as the 'voice of business' on tax, trade, interest rates, compliance costs, infrastructure, energy, education. policy and planning. 

Education and training

EMA back your business to succeed through helping you to invest in your people to make it happen.

EMA business school offers over 100 courses, all targeted at making your business more successful. EMA will work with you either at their training centre or onsite at your business to make sure your people get the best learning, and the best results.

People Experience

People Experience is a people management framework to help members successfully manage an employee’s tenure. EMA’s new People Experience service is designed to support members to be great employers and people leaders. It offers flexible, wraparound people solutions customised to your needs. 

EMA’s People Experience assists members every step of the way.

• Take a smart assessment that will pinpoint areas of people experience and HR you need to focus on to achieve your business goals.
• Access leading-edge and current practical resources through a self-serve library, co-designed with Deloitte.
• Advice line HR assistance and a people experience growth advisor, for immediate advice and support on talent acquisition and retention, performance planning, learning and development, and succession.
• Access to EMA’s consulting service or outsourced HR practice delivered virtually, onsite or via a blended model. 

EMA’s People Experience helps to:

• attract, engage, grow and retain your people
• thrive in the competitive talent marketplace and plan for the future
• unlock the talent in your people, improve your culture, and grow your business
• experience success as a people leader or business owner.  

We’ll be collecting your feedback on how you find the EMA service and that will guide where to next. We wanted to ensure you all could make the most of the offer, experience the service and then make an informed choice.