Is Your Star going to Rise this Awards season?

by Charlie Gunnhingham

Awards are not for everyone, but can be a great way to get your message out and give you and your team a welcome boost.

One way to make yourself known, enhance your credibility and give a welcome lift to team morale is to win awards. But which ones should you enter?

Entering is reward in itself

OK, while some among us (cough – the Aussie cricket team) may have forgotten this bit, in many ways the ‘taking part’ is as important as ‘the win’.

What I mean is, if done properly and in the right spirit, you can derive benefits from just entering the awards as they can be a great way to:

galvanise the team
look back on what you’ve accomplished
check on your strategy (where are you going?)
receive feedback from industry peers and experts
network with high end business people

Win, lose or draw, if your head if screwed on right, you’re ahead.

Awards worth entering

This is not an exhaustive list, but here are some that I have personal knowledge about, in that I have either entered them myself as a startup and/or been a judge.

They are real, the judges and organisers take their jobs seriously, and winning them (or even just being made a finalist) can be quite a feather in your cap.

WAITTA Incite Awards

Longest running IT awards, now in its 28th year
entries have closed for 2019, Finalists announced 9^th April 2019
winners are announced on a gala night at the Crown Perth in June
everyone in the ICT industry, including Ministers, government attends
Even if you’re not entering this year, get yourself along to the gala awards night, 14th June.

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