A key focus this year is on making the event more orientated to the entrants. In past years, the entry process has been perceived as being difficult and time consuming. This year, the Northland Chamber of Commerce has addressed these concerns and developed a number of strategies to assist you in the entry process.
Following a series of Award’s launch parties, the Chamber will hold FREE entrant’s workshops with assistance from Westpac and Business Coaching New Zealand. Here, an effort will be made to demystify the judging process and entrants will “work-through” their entry with the aim of completing the workshop and leaving with their entry almost complete. Following these workshops, the Chamber will also be in a position to provide additional tutoring to entrants if required.
At the completion of the awards entrants will be supplied with feedback from the judging panels. It is intended that this will be focussed on providing meaningful feedback from which the entrant will be able to identify areas of their business that may benefit from being revisited and improved.
The Westpac Northland Business Excellence Awards are a great opportunity for all entrants to celebrate what they have achieved to date and map out where they plan to be in the future. While it requires a degree of courage to hold your business up for examination, previous entrants have commented that they found the process very rewarding. The Northland Chamber of Commerce urges all businesses within the region to seriously consider entering and offer any assistance we can, to help businesses in the process.
Tony Collins
CEO - Northland Chamber of Commerce