| Are you looking for a cost effective way to gain an outside perspective on your organisation’s strengths and opportunities for improvement? |
| Are you looking for a way to energise or motivate your employees? |
| Do you want to improve your organisation’s bottom line? |
| Do you seek media recognition and profile for your business? |
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If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of the above then take the challenge. The following information is designed to assist you with your entry
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Join in the success of Wanganui and enter the Wanganui Security & Electrical 2011 Wanganui Business Awards.
Simply attach your entry submission to the official entry form and send - It's that easy!
The questions should be seen as a complete guide. Some questions will have more relevance to particular businesses than others. As such, they represent, in full, the judges’ entire expectations across the full range of businesses: small to large, manufacturing to service, public to private sector.
NOTE: In the case of franchisees, licensees, branches or subsidiaries it is essential that you present your local response to each of these questions. Significant benefits are available to businesses in each of these forms, therefore, entrants must describe the motivation for adopting that particular form, identify the benefits associated with it, and provide explicit commentary as to the nature of the local (Wanganui) response.
| Preparing your entry |
- Please type your answers
- Answer all questions clearly and concisely for your category
- Use a new page for each question or use appropriate headings to differentiate between questions
- Use tables, graphs, charts and pictures wherever possible to reinforce your written content
- Avoid narrative as a substitute for hard facts
- Treat the writing of your entry like the preparation of your Business Plan which can be used as a plan of activities for the next 12 months
- Let your passion for your business come through in your entry
- Brainstorm the questions with your staff, business partners, accountant etc. You will be surprised at the level of involvement and interest shown in entering the awards. Entering can be a real team effort
- Remember, quality is more important than quantity. Well-presented content is the key to a high score
- Complete and attach the official entry form to your entry submission
- Entries close 5:00 pm on 26th August 2011. No late entries accepted
- All material not collected will be destroyed within two months following the awards
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Conditions of entry
With the exception of those entering the Whanganui UCOL Best New Business |
Any sole proprietor, partnership, constituted community organisation, or limited liability company with its principal place of business operating, based and trading in the Wanganui rating area, is eligible to enter, with the exception of those entering the Wanganui Inc Leisure & Tourism category, where the area is extended to include Rangitikei & Ruapehu.
Excluded from entering are employees of Wanganui Security & Electrical, Wanganui Chamber of Commerce. All winners of the Supreme Business of the Year Award are excluded from entry for a two year period.
With the exception of those entering the CentrePort Wellington Best Emerging Business (the Best New Business), all businesses entering the Awards must have been trading for 12 months or longer as at 31 March 2011.
Entrants are encouraged to submit their entries in their own way, thus using their own imagination and initiative, however all guidelines for completing your entry must be adhered to.
By submitting the entry the entrant authorises the provision of a copy of the application and supporting documents to each of the judges, and the recording in database form, details of the entrant's business name, contact details and list of categories entered, which may be made available to sponsors and media for marketing and promotional purposes.
It is a condition of entry that each winner agrees to co-operate with the respective category sponsor for publicity and promotional purposes.
There is no charge for businesses to enter the Wanganui Security & Electrical 2011 Wanganui Business Awards, however, entrants must purchase a minimum of one ticket to the Business Awards Gala Awards Ceremony.
Entrants must be prepared to accept an award at the Wanganui Security & Electrical 2011 Wanganui Business Awards, and present a quality speech of not more than two minutes.
All entries will be treated in strictest confidence by the judges and be made available for collection by entrants upon completion of the Awards.
The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into .
No staff of sponsors, the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce or local business people will be involved in judging of the awards. All judging is completed by independent Massey University representatives and information supplied will remain totally confidential.
All details outlined in this document form part of the rules and conditions of entry.
The judges may contact or visit your organisation if they require additional information or clarification regarding your entry. A visit by the judges does not necessarily mean that you have been selected as a finalist of the competition.
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