Last night capped off an amazing year in my writing life.
The data electrical company I contract out to for writing submissions for awards won another BICSI National Excellence award last night in Melbourne. What a thrilling result after all the hard work and pulling on all my writing knowledge to get this across the line. I think the most important thing I taught people from this is, What’s your POD, your point of difference? What makes you different from all the others entering this award? What will blow the mind of the judges? What will make them say to themselves, ‘Wow, I would love to implement that in my own business?’ This, I believe is what has given my submissions the edge.
This also gives us back to back National BICSI Excellence awards and those who know me on facey will know about the unheard of triple win in the NECA Queensland Excellence awards earlier this year. What a rush that was. We were written up in the industry magazine and in our own national company magazine for this amazing effort. So what was it for you might ask? Here’s a quick snippet.
NECA stands for the National Electrical Contractors Association and our categories were Workplace Health & Safety for a Company, Workplace Health & Safety for the WSP job we submitted and the 3rd category was the Data & Communications installation for the WSP project. (WSP is the company). Last week we won two of the three National Excellence awards for these same categories. Supa dupa stoked.
There’s lots of criteria and a very in-depth entry but I’ve been doing the entries for a while now and I believe my knowledge of working in the industry as a Project Manager in the Maintenance area, a WPHS Officer, WorkCover Rehabilitation Officer, Office Administrator, payroll officer, Manual coordinator and apprentice coordinator all at different times and now also as a writer has helped me understand how to ask the right questions of the staff that actually worked and completed the project and put out an excellent product. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been a tough ride to the finish line.
Thankfully I am retired now, but I still contract out to the business when they need me for these awards. Crikey, I even help out other states now and guide them to on how to put out a product the judges are going to talk about.