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Excellence in Management Awards
2007 Awards Winners Awards Categories Recognize your colleagues or staff in one or more of the categories listed below. Leadership Award: This award recognizes an individual at any managerial level who consistently demonstrates the qualities of an effective and/or inspirational leader. These qualities may include strategic thinking, ability to innovate and manage change successfully, creative problem-solving, and a commitment to public sector excellence. Nominees exemplify a high level of personal and professional integrity, and hold themselves and others accountable to the highest standards. Maintaining a motivated & high performing staff as well as effectively managing budget, policy, and operational priorities should be key characteristics of this award recipient. Project Management Award: Project managers are responsible for everything from big picture briefings for decision makers, to the details of daily project performance, to managing complex public processes. The challenges these individuals or teams face are often critical to the successful implementation of City initiatives. Project management award nominees face issues such as project schedules, cost controls, running smooth public involvement processes, reporting challenges, and overall project accountability. This award recognizes individuals or teams who've brought an exemplary level of dedication, far-sightedness, commitment, and success to their City projects. Management Support Award: Beside every good manager is an outstanding individual or support team who reads between the lines and gets things done. These are often the unsung heroes and rising stars of our City family. Nominees for this award do whatever it takes to "get it done." This award is intended to celebrate the very important work of those who deliver important support and/or individual contributor functions without a management title. Management in the Field Award: This award recognizes an individual or team who has done outstanding work in the field, and acknowledges that some of our most important work is done not in offices but at locations throughout the city. Nominees in this category effectively manage the critical tasks that make it possible for the City's infrastructure to operate and provide reliable service to customers, all while balancing the needs of the public, the logistics of their jobs, the constraints of their budgets, and the scrutiny of the media. Management in Race and Social Justice Award: This award recognizes a person or team who has shown exceptional leadership in embracing cultural and ethnic diversity as an asset; eliminating institutional systems, practices, and policies that serve as barriers to race and social justice; and transforming civic and citizen engagement processes for greater inclusion and equity. Customer Satisfaction Award The award recognizes an individual or team that radically improved the delivery of a product or service, or developed an innovative new product or service for Seattle's external customers; listened to the view(s) of the end-user customer throughout the project or interaction; and/or consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty to achieve customer satisfaction. |
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